LIFE-BOAT STOOD BY Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 10.42 p.m.

on 23rd March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had gone ashore at Red bay. Ten minutes later a message was received that the vessel needed help. The life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4} was launched at 11.10 in a moderate south-easterly wind and a rough sea. The tide was flooding.

The life-boat reached the trawler Irvana of Fleetwood, and found that some of her crew of 17 had already gone ashore and the remainder were being taken off by the life-saving apparatus team. The life-boat stood by until all the trawler's crew were safely ashore and then returned to her station at 10.40 a.m. the next morning..