On the after- noon of 28th May three boys were on the cliffs at Howth Head looking for birds' nests, when one of them slipped and fell about fifty feet into the sea.

One of his companions, a boy of ten, pluckily scrambled down to the water's edge and pulled him ashore from the rocks on which he was lying. The third boy gave the alarm and the Howth motor life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched at 3.50 P.M., within five minutes of the assembly signal being fired, the bowman, Patrick Moore, acting as coxswain. A moderate east breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The life-boat had taken a punt in tow and this was sent in to take the boys off the rocks as the life- boat could not get close enough. The life-boat then made full speed for Howth and the injured boy was taken at once to a doctor. Unfortunately he died from his injuries some time later.

The life-boat arrived back at her station at 4.20 P.M.—Rewards, £4 13s.