Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 11.55 on the night of the 3rd July, 1961, the honorary secretary, while listening to his radio on the trawler wave band,heard a distress call from the yacht Caragh, stating that she was dragging her anchors over the reef at Small Isles off Craighouse, Jura. A whole north- westerly gale was blowing with a very rough sea. At 12.15 the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth, on temporary duty at the station, put out on the ebbing tide. News was received from the coastguard that several vessels were sheltering south of McArthur's Head light, and one of them, the Fleetwood trawler Princess Ann, gave valuable help by relaying messages between the life-boat, the yacht Caragh and Oban radio. The yacht was manned by a man and his wife and there was a dog on board. The two people were both exhausted. The life-boat towed the yacht into Port Askaig and then re- turned to her station, arriving at 5.20.