Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 11.2 P.M.

on the 17th July, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in distress a mile and a half S.E. of Tara look-out station. She was the motor yacht Naida, of Greenock, with two men on board, bound from Stranraer for Drogheda. Her engines had broken down and she was drifting helplessly.

A S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea, and the captain thought that she would drift on to Strangford Bar. The motor life-boat William Maynard was launched at 11.30 P.M.

and found the Naida six miles east of Killard Point. She towed her into Portavogie Harbour, and returned to her station at 2.45 A.M.—Rewards, £14 7s. 6d..