Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.45 in the evening of the 3rd of May, 1948. the Civic Guard reported that a French trawler, the Croix du Sud, had struck a bank and had four feet of water in her hold. She was making for harbour and had asked for the life- boat. The motor life-boat Duke of Connaught. on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 8.30, in a strong south-south-east breeze with a rough sea, and found the Croix du Sud off Helvick Head. She had a crew of eight and three Helvick men on board acting as pilots. The life-boat escorted her to Dunmore East and arrived back at her station at 10 o'clock that night.

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