Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 6 o'clock in the evening of the 19th of July, 1948, information was received that a sailing dinghy from Cork had capsized in the bay between Red Buoy and Capel Island, and at 6.15 the motor life-boat Laurana Sarah Blunt was launched.

A strong, squally south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a very choppy sea.

The life-boat searched widely and found the dinghy in tow of a salmon yawl one mile off the Knockadoon shore. The dinghy's crew of three, two of whom were suffering from shock and exposure, had been taken aboard the yawl. They were transferred to the life-boat which arrived back at her station at 8.15. The two sick men were sent to a nursing home. The dinghy was eventually beached. — Rewards, £10 19s..