Troon, Ayrshire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 15th of March, 1961, the harbour master at Ardrossan in- formed the honorary secretary that the Liberian tanker Sol of Monrovia was aground one mile south of Ardrossan.

He asked whether the life-boat could pass a tow rope from the grounded vessel to the tug Seaway. At 7.55, when the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth, on temporary duty at the station, put out, there was a fresh south-south-westerly wind with a moderate sea and the tide was half flood. The life-boat reached the casualty at 9.6 and helped to pass a line to her from the tug. The life-boat stood by until the tanker was refloated at 10.25. She then returned to her station, arriving at 11.20..