Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—Owing to sudden dense fog and heavy rain on the 30th January the Clogher Head fishing fleet, which was about eleven miles N.E. of Port Oriel, made for home.

All boats except the Primrose, with the life-boat coxswain on board, got safely in. The Primrose was heard making signals of distress, and the motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched at 11.20 P.M., the Rev. Father J. G. MacCooey, honorary secretary of the branch, accompanying her. Owing to the dense fog, the life-boat had to steer by compass for Port Oriel, and found the Primrose about two miles north of that place. The Primrose's engine had broken down, but her skipper did not want the life-boat's help at the moment, as he thought that he could get in unaided. The lifeboat stood by until the Primrose, under improvised oars, made Port Oriel, and returned to her station at 3.30 A.M.— Rewards, £16 17s..