Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 8.10 in the morning of the 15th of September, 1948, the police telephoned that a vessel was firing distress signals about one mile off Bangor, and at 8.55 the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched. A northerly gale was blow- ing, with a very heavy sea. The life- boat found the schooner Antelope, of Wexford, in distress one mile north of Bangor pier. She took off her crew of five and arrived back at her station at 11.30. The weather improved, and about 6.30 in the evening the skipper of the Antelope asked the life-boat to take him and his crew out again as the weather had now moderated. As the schooner, where she was anchored, was a danger to shipping, the life-boat took out the five men, put them on board and returned to her station again at 9 o'clock.—Rewards: First Service, £8 14*.; Second Service, £7 5*..