Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 5.45 on the morning of the 18th November, 1961, a man living in Burtonport told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had grounded in Arran roads.

The life-boat W. M. Tilson left her moorings at six o'clock in a gentle south-easterly wind and a moderate sea.

The tide was half ebb. The life-boat found the fishing boat Ard Crona on the rocks, but the fishing boat's crew of seven decided to stay aboard. The life- boat stood by until the fishing boat refloated and then returned to her station, arriving at noon..