SEAMAN LANDED Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 11.55 a.m. on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard told the chairman of the branch committee that the motor vessel Firth Fisher was heading for Portpatrick with an injured seaman aboard. A doctor, who was on holiday at Portpatrick, accompanied the life-boat Thejeanie when she slipped her moorings at 12.37 p.m. The injured man was taken to the shore by the lifeboat.

There was little wind with a slight sea, and the tide had been ebbing for over an hour at the time of the service. The life-boat returned to her station at 1.17..