About six o'clock on the evening of the 20th September a large vessel was observed on Arklow Bank, throwing up rockets and firing guns as sig- nals of distress. The Arklow life-boat was quickly launched and proceeded to her aid.

She proved to be the ship Edinburgh Castle, bound from Glasgow to Singapore, with a general cargo. She subsequently floated off the bank, but making so much water that the captain requested the life-boat to remain by him, and employed her crew to assist in working the pumps. The life-boat accom- panied the vessel about 10 miles outside the Arklow Light, and then returned to her station, leaving her pumped dry. The cap- tain gave the life-boat crew 401. in gratitude for the valuable services they rendered him and his ship..