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Melrose

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At two in the afternoon of the 14th of October, 1948, information was received that the motor trawler Melrose, of Kilmore, had broken her propeller shaft and was drifting towards the shore two and a half miles east by south of Dunmore Lighthouse. The motor life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched at 2.20, in a strong westerly breeze with a rough sea, found the trawler, with a crew of four, anchored, but with the anchors dragging, and towed her to harbour, arriving back at her station at 3.25.^Rewards, £7.