LOBSTER BOAT AGROUND ON SHEEP ROCK Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 10.26 on the morning of Wednesday the 28th of August, 1963, the Southend coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the Portpatrick coastguard had reported the m.f.v. Dauntless, 25 tons, of St. Abbs, ashore with a crew of four on Sheep Island and had requested the life-boat to stand by. The life-boat City of Glasgow II left her moorings at 10.45 on the three-quarter ebb with light airs from the south-east.

She located the casualty at mid-day ebbed and listing to port on Sheep Rock, east of Sheep Island. A line was passed to the casualty which was in no immediate danger as there was no wind and no tide. At 4.20 p.m. the life-boat helped the Dauntless, which was owned by the bowman of the St. Abbs life-boat, to refloat and the crew continued to lay their lobster creels. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 5.53 p.m..