STRANDED SERVICEMEN At 8.30 p.m. on 4th November, 1963, the coxswain saw a signalling lamp being used on Lady Isle, and informed the honorary secretary. There was a fresh northeasterly breeze with a moderate sea and the tide was flooding. The life-boat James and Barbara Aitken left at ten o'clock and found a party of three United States servicemen stranded on Lady Isle. Their motor boat, which is used by the United States Air Force in connection with parachute training and skin diving, had broken down and been washed on to the island. The three men were brought back to the mainland and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 12.15 a.m. on 5th November, 1963..