Troon, Ayrshire - At 11.5 a.m. on 14th March, 1970, the police informed the coxswain of the life-boat that a rubber dinghy with three people on board, which had put to sea the previous evening, had failed to return. The life-boat Connel Elizabeth Cargill slipped her moorings at 11.15. It was low water. After searching near Lady Isle and southwards, she came up with the dinghy at 12.30 p.m. about two miles north of the Heads of Ayr. The dinghy's paddles had been lost. At 12.30 the dinghy and her crew were taken aboard the life-boat. She returned to her moorings at 1.15..