TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.45 on the morning of the 9th September, 1962, the pilot at Troon harbour told the coxswain that a cabin cruiser was drifting close to Gailes shore. At 11.55 the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken left her moorings in a south-westerly gale and a rough sea. It was two hours after low water. When the position given was reached it was found that another cabin cruiser Aquila had connected a tow line to the cabin cruiser Thistle, which had engine trouble, but because of the heavy seas no headway could be made. The life-boat took over the tow line, and the Thistle, which had four men on board, was towed to Troon.

The life-boat reached her station at 12.55..