At 6.30 A.M.

on 17th April the Coxswain received a message from the Guard at Goleen that a steamer was ashore to the S.W.

of Cape Clear. The Motor Life-boat Shamrock was launched at 7.30 A.M. in a moderate N.E. breeze with a smooth sea. After cruising about off Cape Clear without success, she put in to Baltimore again and found that four of the steamer's crew had landed at Crook- haven in a ship's boat but that five others in another boat were still missing.

The vessel was the s.s. Slateland, of London, which had sprung a leak, and sunk, one and a half miles W. of Cape Clear while bound from the Brownhead granite mines with a cargo of broken stone. The four men were taken aboard the Life-boat which then cruised round in the area of the Mizen. As she found nothing it was decided to land at Cape Clear, and here the Coxswain was informed that the other five men had landed there and had been transferred to Schull. The Life-boat then returned to her Station, arriving back at 5 P.M..

having been out on service for nine and a half tours.—Rewards, £4 19s. 6d..