On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to Barry, but had had engine trouble when near Holyhead, become unmanageable, and been driven by an easterly gale towards the Irish coast. She was short of coal and food, and her crew of twenty-one were exhausted and unable to work the ship.

She was seen from shore and the motor life-boat C. and S. was launched at 12.30 P.M. in a rough sea to warn the captain of the danger to his ship.

After learning of the Pauline's plight the life-boat put back to Dunmore and returned with provisions. Then, as the steamer began to drag her anchor and the captain had no charts and did not know where he was, two life-boat- men were put aboard, and piloted her to a safe anchorage in Waterford Harbour. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 11 P.M.—Property Salvage Case..