HAD BROKEN DOWN Troon, Ayrshire. At 7.27 p.m. on 5th May, 1964, the Kildonan coastguard told the life-boat coxswain of a Lamlash police report that a small boat was in difficulties 200 yards north of Holy Isle buoy. The life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. There was a moderate south-south-west wind with a moderate sea, and an ebbing tide.

Searching in poor visibility the life-boat found the 23-foot cabin cruiser Westward, with one man on board, broken down three miles north of Clauchlands Point.

The life-boat towed the boat to Lamlash and returned to her station at midnight..