Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 1st November, 1961, a relative of the crew of three of the motor fishing vessel Linda informed the honorary secretary that the vessel was overdue and asked for the life-boat to search for her. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings at 11.30, one hour after high water, in a south-westerly gale and a rough sea. After searching for some time she found the Linda ashore on the north coast of Loch Hourn with her propeller fouled. The lifeboat anchored to windward and veered down on to the fishing vessel and fired a line over her. Parachute flares were used to light up the scene. A rope was then hauled across, and when this had been made fast to a small boat.which had been lowered from the fishing vessel, the three men were pulled across to the life-boat. The life-boat then returned to her station, which she reached at 4.50 in the morning..