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The Anastatia

DRIFTING TOWARDS THE ROCKS Wicklow.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of January 28th, 1947, the lighthouse keeper at Wicklow Head telephoned that a fishing boat was flying distress signals half a mile south-east of the Head. A strong north-easterly breeze was blowing, the sea was rough, and it was snowing heavily. The motor life- boat Lady Kylsant was launched at 4.45 P.M., and found the Anastatia, of Arklow, with four men on board, half a mile north-east of Wolf Rock, drifting towards it. The life-boat towed her in, arriving back at her station at 7.30 in the evening.—Property Salvage Case..