Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 7.26 on the evening of the 16th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two bathers had been seen in difficulties off the Black Rocks. As there would not be enough water near the bathers to allow the life-boat to come close inshore, it was decided to take a small rowing boat in tow. The life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. f) was launched at 7.35 in a calm sea.

There was a light north-westerly wind and an ebb tide. One of the bathers was found and was taken from the water by three members of the life-boat crew in the rowing boat. He was then trans- ferred to the life-boat, where artificial respiration was applied until the har- bour was reached. The help of a doctor on the quayside was enlisted, but it was found that the man was dead. The small rowing boat, which had continued to search for the second bather, was again joined by the life-boat, but both were recalled when it was learnt that the second bather had reached shore safely.

The life-boat finally reached her station at nine o'clock..