FIVE LIVES LOST Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 4.35 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the Coast Life Saving Service reported a vessel in distress off Bally- money, Co. Wexford, about ten miles by sea from Arklow, and the motor life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched at 5.20. A moderate south-easterly gale was blowing, with heavy seas.

The life-boat found the vessel to be the motor schooner Isallt, of Dublin, bound for Waterford, but no one was on board. She had struck a sandbank, inside the Glasgoman Bank, and her crew of seven, one of them a woman, had left in the ship's boat, but the boat had capsized and only two men reached the shore alive. The life-boat remained near the schooner until daybreak and then returned to her station, arriving at 10.40.—Rewards, £20 15s..