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Maybird

The motor life-boat K.E.C.F., with a tender in tow, put out at 3.35 P.M. on the 25th March, as the life-boat watch- man had seen a small vessel go ashore about half a mile S.W. of the fort. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat found the vessel to be the fishing boat May- bird, of Wexford, with one man on board. She had gone aground after her rudder had been damaged. The life-boat went as near, as the shoal water would allow, and then the tender, with some of the life-boat crew on board, went alongside. The life-boat- men helped to refloat the Maybird, and then, as she was leaking badly, the life-boat escorted her into a safe anchorage in Wexford harbour. The life-boat, but for whose help boat and man would have been lost, returned to her station at 7.15 P.M. The rescued man expressed his thanks by a letter in the press.—Permanent crew; Re- wards, £2 18s. 3d..