Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford—At 11.45 in the morning of the 21st of April, 1948, the steamer lerne, of the Irish Lights Commissioners, wirelessed that a vessel was stranded on the east side of the Blackwatcr Bank. The same message was received from the Coast Life-Saving Service at Morris Castle, and at noon the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched in a moderate north-easterly breeze, with a choppy sea. She found the s.s.

Clezebay, of Belfast, bound for Cork laden with coal, hard aground and leaking. Her captain refused to leave her, but four of his crew of eleven had already manned a boat and made for the shore. At the captain's request the life-boat searched for the boat and found her close inshore, but with no one on board. The men had got ashore.

The life-boat returned to the Clewbay and stood by her until high water. As her services were no longer needed she returned to her station, arriving at 10.30 that night.—Rewards, £14 8$..