SWAM TO LAUNCH At 2.40 p.m. on 3ist August, 1964, the life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in response to a report that a naval launch with seven people on board was in difficulties in shallow broken water about 50 yards off shore ij miles north of Scurdyness. There were light airs from the south-west and the sea was calm, but the shallowness of the water around the launch and the presence of a sandbank made her extremely unsteady. She was unable to correct this because her engines had broken down. After several attempts to fire a line from the life-boat to the launch, a member of the life-boat's crew swam 200 yards to the launch with a line which was then used to tow her to Montrose harbour. The life-boat returned to her station at 4 p.m..