Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 8.12 on the evening of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sixteen-feet outboard motor boat with an amateur frogman on board was overdue. The frogman had left Port Bradden at 3.30 to in- vestigate a wreck off Port Bradden.

At 8.15 the life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) was launched at high water in a gentle south-easterly breeze and a moderate sea. She searched in conjunction with H.M.S. Camberford, which eventually found and picked up the outboard motor boat off the mouth of Lough Foyle. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 2.30.