At 4.50 A.M.

on the 17th March a telephone call was received from Dublin that Valentia Wireless Station had reported a trawler in distress twenty-five miles S.S.W. of Mizen Head. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and showers of rain. The motor life-boat Shamrock was launched at 5.30 A.M., but failed to find the trawler, and eventu- ally put in to Crookhaven for further in- formation. There was none, so the life- boat returned to her station, arriving there at 5 P.M. She had been out on service for eleven and a half hours. It was learned later that the trawler, which had lost her propeller, had been towed by another vessel into Berehavenj It was a long and arduous service, and an additional reward of 10s. was given to each of the crew.—Rewards, £17 5s.