Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.-—At 1.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1949, information was received that a Dutch vessel had stranded on Hantoon Bank, and at 1.55 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched.

The secretary of the station, Mr.

W. J. B. Moncas, went with her. A light southerly breeze was blowing with a smooth sea. The life-boat found the motor vessel Confid, of Rotterdam, bound for Wexford, on the south-east part of the bank. She had a crew of six. Her skipper said that another Dutch vessel would try to tow him off on the flood tide, and asked the life- boat if she would then stand by him, so she returned to her station at 4 o'clock and put out again, at 6.40.

She then stood by the Confid until high water when the other vessel refloated her. The towing wire fouled, so the life-boat continued to stand by until both vessels had reached a safe anchorage. She arrived back at her station at 12.4 the next morning.

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