Troon, Ayrshire - At 4.20 p.m. on 9th April, 1966, the police told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized off Croy Hotel and two people were hanging on to the boat. The lifeboat James and Barbara Aitken was launched at 4.35 in a strong east-southeasterly wind and a rough sea. It was three hours before low water. She proceeded to the position given and started to search.

At 6.35 the coastguard advised the lifeboat that the occupants of the dinghy had been landed. She picked up the dinghy and returned to her station at 8.50..