CABIN CRUISER FOUND AGROUND IN RIVER Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.16 on the afternoon of the 1st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a boy was adrift in a small rubber dinghy off Carnoustie. The life-boat The Robert was launched at 5.25 in a moderate west-north-westerly wind and a moderate sea. It was two hours after high water. A helicopter joined the lifeboat in a search off Carnoustie, but they found nothing except an oil drum. The life-boat was eventually recalled, and at 9.30, while she was on her way up river, the coxswain saw a small cabin cruiser aground near the Abertay sandbanks.

She was in no immediate danger but might be in difficulties if the wind changed to the north-east, and the coxswain decided to stand by until the cabin cruiser refloated. She did in fact refloat an hour later, and the life-boat escorted her to Tayport harbour, where she was safely berthed. The cabin cruiser's owner thanked the coxswain for his help, and the life-boat reached her station at eleven o'clock..