TOW FOR YACHT IN STRONG GALE Anstruther, Fife. At 5.47 on the morning of the 24th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was drifting two miles south-east-by-south from Fifeness.

The life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was launched at 6.10 in a strong south-west-by-westerly gale and a very rough sea. It was two hours before high water. At 6.44 the lifeboat reported that the yacht had been sighted, and an hour later she took the yacht Torrish of Granton, which had a crew of five, in tow. Because of the wind the yacht's crew had been unable to set sail and the yacht had been drifting. During the return passage the tow parted twice. Each time it was reconnected with difficulty. At times the motion of the yacht was so violent that in trying to reconnect the tow her crew were forced to lie on the deck to avoid being washed overboard.

The life-boat reached Anstruther harbour at 10.45 and the yacht was berthed alongside the west wall. One of the yacht's crew fell overboard when trying to pass a mooring rope ashore, but he was soon recovered by the life-boat crew. The life-boat reached her station at 11.30..