Girvan, Ayrshire. About six o'clock on the evening of the 15th August, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message from the man in charge of the lighthouse supply boat at Ailsa Craig that a quarryman was suffering from a badly injured eye and needed urgent medical attention. The state of the tide prevented the supply boat from putting out. At 6.25 the life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No. 10) slipped her moorings on the ebbing tide with the honorary medical adviser on board.

There was a moderate sea with a moderate west-south-westerly breeze.

The life-boat arrived at Ailsa Craig at 7.45, and after the injured man had been attended to by the doctor he was taken on board the life-boat, which then returned to Girvan, arriving at 9.15. As the state of the tide prevented the life-boat from entering the harbour, a salmon coble was used to land the injured man and the doctor. The injured man was taken to the hospital, where his eye had to be removed. The Ailsa Craig Quarrying Company, which em- ployed the injured man, made a dona- tion to the branch funds..