Campbeltown, Argyllshire - At 12.30 p.m. on igth June, 1967, a message was received that the motor fishing vessel Chalon, which had left Campbeltown on the 18th to attend to her lobster pots at Arran, had broken down on the return journey and had drifted ashore on Arran.

At 2.30 a further message was received that efforts would be made to refloat her at high tide and the life-boat was asked to assist. The life-boat The Rankin, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 8 o'clock in a light westerly wind and a smooth sea. The tide was flooding. A line was passed to the Chalon and she was taken in tow to Campbeltown..