St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10.55 on the night of the 9th of March, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a small vessel was firing flares at the south-east end of Gugh Island. At 11.10, when the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched, there was a light south-easterly breeze with a correspond- ing sea. The tide was half ebb, and therewere fog patches. The French trawler Petit Jean Yves was found aground at 11.42. Her master and crew of four eventually agreed to leave the vessel, and the life-boat returned to her station with the five men aboard at 12.10 early on the 10th of March. At seven o'clock in the morning the life-boat put out again with a dinghy in tow. She took the crew out to the French trawler and put them on board again. A tow rope was passed to the life-boat, and after waiting about an hour on the flood tide the trawler was refloated by the life-boat with the help of her own engines. The life-boat escorted her into St. Mary's roads and returned to her station at 9.30..