Girvan, Ayrshire. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 5th July, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that one of the light keepers on Ailsa Craig had fallen and been injured and that he needed immediate medical help.

There was a fresh north-westerly wind with a rough sea, and the tide was ebbing. At 10.20 the life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow, put out, as the Northern Light- house Board's local tender could not cross the bar because of the state of the neap tide. The life-boat reached the light- house and took off the injured keeper, who had broken some ribs, and landed him at Girvan, where he was removed to hospital. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.30..