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A Pulling Boat

Poolbeg, Co. Dublin. — At 6.40 on the night of the 13th of March, 1949, a man telephoned to the life-boat station that a pulling boat with two girls in it was drifting down the river Liffy. There was a fresh south- westerly wind, the sea was choppy, the girls could not manage the boat, and she was in danger of being blown out to sea. The life-boat Helen Blake was launched at 6.35, took the two girls aboard, towed the boat to Pigeon House Dock and returned to her station at half past seven.—Rewards, £7 17s..