Troon, Ayrshire. At 3.30 on the morn- ing of the 4th of March, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been sighted six to seven miles north-east of Kildonan Point. At 4.10, when the life-boat Charlotte Eliza- beth, on temporary duty at the station, put out, there was a moderate south- south-westerly wind with a rough sea and the tide was half ebb. The life-boat came up with the motor vessel Lascar of Glasgow, which had engine-trouble and had drifted to within a hundred yards of the bar at the entrance to Irvine har- bour. The life-boat towed the vessel to Troon and reached her station at eight o'clock..