Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 5.20 a.m. on I5th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Maisie of Caernarvon had broken down six miles south west by west of Portpatrick. A message received from the British ship Fernfield advised that the assistance of the lifeboat was required. At 5.55 the life-boat Thejeanie left in a gentle north westerly breeze and a slight sea. It was high water.

She reached the casualty at 6.45 and took the Maisie in tow, reaching Portpatrick at nine o'clock..