Aberdeen. At 11.6 p.m. on 30th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Ability of Kirkcaldy had gone ashore below the Girdleness lighthouse. The coastguard had tried to contact the vessel's crew by aldis lamp but had received no reply. The life-boat Ramsay-Dyce left at 11.35 in a light south-westerly breeze and a calm sea. The tide was flooding. A tow rope passed from the life-boat to the Ability was declined, so the life-boat stood by until the vessel refloated. The life-boat escorted her to Aberdeen and reached her station at 12.45 a.m..