Reserve life-boat O.N. 776 on passage - At 10.30 p.m. on 12th September, 1969, while the life-boat was moored overnight at Oban, the harbour jnaster reported that red flares had been sighted in the vicinity of Lismore island. At 10.40 the life-boat The Rankin slipped her moorings in a slight north easterly wind with a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing. At 11.20 she came up with the motor yacht Modestine, with three people on board, just off Creig island. Her engine had failed and she was drifting.

The life-boat took her in tow to Oban, and returned to her moorings at 12.40 a.m. on 13th September..