Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 7.30 p.m.

on 29th April, 1966, a man informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel was in trouble off the Isle of Jura.

The help of the Islay life-boat had been requested as the vessel's engine had exploded and a crew member had been injured. The life-boat Francis W. Wotherspoon of Paisley was launched at 7.40 in a moderate south westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was low water. The coastguard told the honorary secretary that the injured man was being taken ashore by a local boatman, but that the m.f.v. May of Port Charlotte, Islay, still required the life-boat's assistance. She found the casualty at Lagg Point with her engine shattered by the explosion. The vessel was towed to Crinan, and the lifeboat returned to her station at 5 a.m. The fishing vessel's owner has since made a donation to the Institution's funds..