NO PETROL Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 2.40 p.m. on 26th July, 1965, the owner of a small dinghy informed the motor mechanic that two small boys had borrowed the boat and were long overdue. The maroons were fired and the life-boat EMM.

Gordon Cubbin proceeded at 2.45 in a light south-easterly breeze and a choppy sea. It was high water. The life-boat searched the north-east shores of Loch Nevis and found the dinghy ashore in a bay. Shortly afterwards the boys appeared carrying a can of petrol. They had run out of petrol and, although they had oars, they did not have rowlocks and were blown ashore. The two boys were taken aboard the life-boat which returned to her station with the dinghy in tow, arriving at 4 p.m..