Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 2nd of April, 1948, the Duncannon police tele- phoned that a small boat was in distress, and the motor life-boat Duke of Con- naught, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.45 in a west- north-west gale with a choppy sea.

She found an open salmon yawl near the Bar Buoy, Waterford Harbour, half full of water, her sails blown away, and her crew of two exhausted. The life- boat rescued the men, and brought them and their boat to Ballyhack Harbour.

She arrived back at her station at six o'clock.—Rewards, £6 ISs..