On the after- noon of the 3rd March a man told the coxswain that a boat was drifting off Howth. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.

The motor life-boat Lady Kylsant put out at 3.10 P.M., and about three miles S.E. of Howth Head found a small, flat-bottomed boat drifting, with her sails blown away. She was an amateur- built boat, and could not have survived for long had she been carried much farther out to sea. The two young men on board were rescued and the boat was towed back to harbour. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 4.10 P.M.—Rewards, £8 16s. 6d..