FISHING BOAT TOWED IN Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 5.30 in the evening of the 16th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat C.E. 44 was overdue. A later message said that she had last been seen one mile off the Royal Air Force Radio Buoy, and at seven o'clock the motor life-boat T.B.B.H. was launched. A fresh south-south-west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.

She found the fishing boat ten miles north-west of Portrush, drifting with her engine broken down. She had three men on board. The life-boat towed her in. arriving at 9.2 that night.

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