Life-boat 70-002, Ullapool, Ross and Cromarty - At 6.2 p.m. on 25th November, 1966, the police told the assistant district inspector, who was in command of the life-boat 70-002, that flashing lights had been sighted in the vicinity of Martin Isle. At 6.15 the lifeboat Grace Paterson Ritchie proceeded in a fresh west south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was two hours after high water. After a search using her searchlight the life-boat located the cabin cruiser Mercure, with engine failure, at anchor in Loch Kanaird. A member of the life-boat's crew was put aboard the Mercure and, with her crew of three on board, she was towed back to Ullapool.

The life-boat returned to her moorings at 8.30..