At 6.20A.M.

on the 17th September the Life-boat Sir Arthur Blackwood was launched in response to signals of distress from a steamer. There was a thick fog at the time and on arriving on the scene of the casualty the Life-boat found the passenger and cargo steamer, Galtee More, of Dublin, aground about half a mile from the Haulbowline Light-house.

She was bound at the time from Holy- head to Greenore with a general cargo.

Another steamer also went to her assistance and took off some of the passengers and tried ineffectually to tow her clear. The Life-boat then stood by the steamer until she was able with her own engines on the flood tide to get off the sands..