At 10.30 P.M. on the 8th December a telephone message was received from the Civic Guard at Kinsale that a vessel was in distress off Garrettstown Strand.

The Motor Life-boat Sarah Ward and David William Crostxeller was launched in a strong E.S.E. gale with a very heavy sea, and found the auxiliary schooner Elizabeth Drew, of Plymouth, about 600 yards from the rocks, riding to one anchor. All her sails had been blown away and her engines had broken down. The Life-boat stood by for two hours, and then went to windward of the schooner and poured oil on the water, to lessen the effect of the seas while the engines were being repaired.

The Elizabeth Drew then slipped her anchor and made for Courtmacsherry, with the Life-boat in attendance.

When approaching the bar the Life-boat again poured oil on the water, and this enabled the schooner to make harbour safely. But for the help given by the Life-boat the schooner and her crew of four would have been lost.—Rewards, £15 95..