LIFE-BOAT HELPS TO REFLOAT FISHING VESSEL Islay, Hebrides. At 4.45 on the morning of the 12th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he felt some concern for the safety of the crew of a motor fishing vessel, which was ashore with four men on board between Ardnave and Knave Island on the west coast of Islay. No distress signals had been fired from the vessel, but the wind was freshening, and at 5.35 the life-boat Francis W. Wotherspoon of Paisley left her moorings.

There was a strong north-westerly wind with a slight swell, and it was nearly low water. The life-boat found the motor fishing vessel May of Campbeltown ashore on a rock, and her skipper asked the coxswain if the life-boat would stand by until high water. The coxswain agreed, and when the tide rose the life-boat and another motor fishing vessel, the Calum-Cille of Oban, helped to refloat the May. The May was not damaged, and the life-boat therefore returned to her station, arriving at 3.10..