Montrose, Angus. At 2.15 on the morning of the 1st August, 1961, the owner of the motor fishing vessel Isla, which had been aground for five hours at the mouth of the Southern Esk, telephoned the honorary secretary to say the engine of the boat would not start and the anchor would not hold.

There was a danger that the flood tide, which was then running, would carry the Isla over submerged rocks, and it was decided to launch the life-boat. At 2.25, when the life-boat The Good Hope was launched, there was a westerly wind blowing and the sea was calm. The life-boat towed the Isla, which had the owner's son and another man on board, clear of the rocks and back to the har- bour. She then returned to her station, arriving at 3.15..