Ansrruther, Fifeshire. At 4.7 on the afternoon of the 6th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a cabin cruiser was firing red flares off the North Carr lightvessel.

A strong south-west-by-westerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough.

At 4.24, about low water, the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was launched.

She made for a position indicated by a helicopter, and on arriving found the cabin cruiser Widgeon drifting with two people aboard. Her engines had broken down. A small boat from the North Carr lightvessel was standing by.

The life-boat took both boats in tow, and after returning the small boat to the lightvessel, she made for her station with the cabin cruiser still in tow, and arrived at 9.7..