BROKEN ANCHOR CHAIN Girvan, Ayrshire. At 10 p.m. on 28th August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by a neighbour that a boat was showing distress signals to the north of Girvan.

The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 10.27 in a moderate westsouth- westerly wind, a rough sea, and a flooding tide. She found the motor cruiser Alert with a broken anchor chain 500 yards north of the harbour, with a crew of six. The Alert was taken in tow and the life-boat reached her station at 11.15 P-m-.