Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 11.15 p.m.

on 23rd October, 1966, information was received that a small motor boat last seen two miles east of Port Ellen during the afternoon had not yet returned to her moorings. At 11.35 the life-boat Francis W. Wotherspoon of Paisley set out as the tide was flooding. The motor boat, with one man on board, was found ashore at Churn Island. The man was embarked and landed at Port Ellen. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.20 a.m. on 24th October..