EXHAUSTED MEN RESCUED FROM PILOT BOAT Kirkcudbright. At 10.15 on the morning of the 21st June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a pilot boat returning to Workington from Girvan after an overhaul was long overdue and that her position was not known. The coxswain made various enquiries without success, and at 10.39 the life-boat Richard Silver Oliver, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. There was a moderate to fresh south-westerly wind and a moderate sea. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat searched the area between Ross and Barrow Head and eventually found the pilot boat Cumbria of Workington with a crew of three in a very dangerous position near the rocks at Meikle Ross.

One of the crew of the Cumbria had injured his hands, and the others were suffering from exhaustion. The boat's engine had broken down, and her crew had been in difficulty since ten o'clock the evening before. The life-boat took the Cumbria in tow and reached her station at 1.40. The three men were taken to hospital..