Workington, Cumberland. At 6.35 on the morning of the 3rd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the trawler Ailsea had broken down with engine trouble half- way between St. Bees and Meikle Ross in the Solway Firth. A fresh west-south- westerly wind was blowing with a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. At 7.10 the life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX was launched. The life-boat reached the Ailsea, which had a crew of three, eight miles south-south-west of Ross light. She took her in tow to Workington, and then returned to her station, arriving at 1.45..