NORWEGIAN STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO Dun Laoghaire, and Howth, Co. Dublin.

—On the 4th of March, 1947, the Norwegian motor vessel, Bolivar, of Oslo, ran aground on the northern end of the Kish Bank, seven and a half miles from Dun Laoghaire. Visibility was poor, with snow and sleet, and a moderate east-north-east gale was blowing with a very rough sea. The news was received at the Dun Laoghaire lifeboat station at 4.15 in the afternoon from the Coast Life-Saving Sendee, and twenty minutes later the motor life-boat Dunleary II put out with the second coxswain in command. She found that the Bolivar had broken in two, and her fifty-one passengers and crew were on the after end. It gave an excellent lee to the life-boat, which went alongside and took off forty-five persons. While she did it she was under the control of the acting second coxswain. The other six men on the Bolivar had manned one of the ship's boats,, intending to pass a line to the tug Coliemore, but the boat was let go and the six men were, with some difficulty, picked up by the tug. One of the life-boat's propellers had fouled some wreckage and her return journey was slow and difficult.

She did not reach her station again until 10.30 at night.

The life-boat station at Howth had received'the same message as Dun Laoghaire at 5.20, and the motor life-boat R.P.L. was launched twenty-five minutes later. She found the Dun Laoghaire life-boat rescuing the passengers and crew, and escorted her back to her station, returning to Howth at 12.45 next morning.

Among the passengers rescued was Admiral Lord Mountevans ("Evans of the Broke"). The captain of the Bolivar, and the chief inspector of the Coast Life-Saving Service paid tribute to the life-boats.

The Institution awarded its thanks inscribed on vellum to the acting second-coxswain, W. KELLY, who was at the wheel during the actual rescue, £2 10s. to him and each member of his crew, and £2 5s. to each membsr of the Howth crew.

Rewards, Dun Laoghaire, £19 15s., Howth, £16 16s.The owners of the Bolivar, Messrs.

Fred Olson & Co., of Oslo, gave 50 guineas to the Institution and £100 to each crew. The gifts to the crews were presented in Dublin by Admiral Lord Mountevans..