Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— At 8.30 in the evening of the 31st of May, 1949, the Coast Life-saving Service at Blackwater reported that a fishing boat, which had been at anchor close inshore since noon, had now hoisted a flag, and the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 8.56. A southerly wind was blowing with a slight sea.

The life-boat found the fishing boat about half a mile off Blackwater Head.

Her engine had broken down, and her crew of two were without food. The life-boat towed her into Rosslare Har- bour, arriving at ten minutes after midnight.-—Rewards, £4 15s..