NIGHT SEARCH FOR MISSING YOUTH AND CABIN CRUISER Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.45 p.m. on Monday the 22nd of July, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by a youth's father that the cabin cruiser Beaver with the boy on board had left Whiting Bay at 6.30 for Troon and was long overdue. At 12.44 a.m. the lifeboat James and Barbara Aitken was launched in a light south-westerly wind and a moderate sea. It was an hour before high water and visibility was very poor. At one o'clock the Ayr police reported that the cabin cruiser was in Ayr harbour. The life-boat went to Ayr harbour and escorted the cabin cruiser with the youth on board to Troon.

The life-boat returned to her moorings at 3.15. The owner of the cabin cruiser made a donation to the Institution's funds..