Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford.—At 11.10 on the night of the 14th .of August, 1948, the Lowestoft steam trawler Lord Anson reported that the steam trawler Mint, also of Lowestoft, was calling for help on her radio, and the motor life-boat Duke ofConnaught, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.20. A moderate southerly gale was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. The life-boat could see flares on Dogger Bank, Wexford Bar, and there she found the trawler with a heavy list to starboard and seas breaking over her. At the skipper's request the life-boat stood by clear of the breakers. At 3.55 next morning the trawler whistled for the life-boat. The skipper had decided to abandon ship. At the third attempt to go alongside, the life-boat rescued the crew of nine and took them to Rosslare Harbour, arriving at 5.30.

On the afternoon of the following day, the 16th, at two o'clock, the life- boat went again to the Mint, with two trawlers, to help them to refloat her.

The trawlers could not get near her, so the life-boat approached and took soundings, but it was found impossible to fix a towing wire and all three returned to harbour at 3.40.

The life-boat went out again at 4.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of August, with a small boat in tow and a salvage party aboard. Sand prevented the life-boat from going alongside the Mint, but the salvage people took soundings and were able to board the wreck from the small boat. With the trawler's boat in tow the life-boat returned to her station again at 9.30 that night.— Rewards: First Service, £7 145; partly paid permanent crew. Second and Third Services, Property Salvage Cases.