Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 9.35 a.m.

on 14th August, 1969, the honorary secretary reported that red flares had been sighted in the vicinity of Nave island. The life-boat Francis W.

Wotherspoon of Paisley slipped her moorings at 9.50 in a fresh south easterly wind with a moderate sea.

The tide was ebbing. At 11.15 the life-boat found the motor fishing vessel May, with a crew of three on board, aground on a reef at Bolsa point. The crew were taken aboard the life-boat and landed at Port Askaig. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.35 p.m..