Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 10.50 in the morning of the 22nd of March, 1949, a report was received by telephone that the Cahirciveen motor fishing boat Morning Star, which had gone out the previous evening with a crew of four, had not returned. She had last been seen about four miles inside Shilligs Rock at two o'clock that morning.

The life-boat City of Bradford I, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.15 in a north-westerly wind with a rough sea. She found the boat four miles west of Bray Head with her engine broken down and her crew exhausted. They had been with- out food for nineteen hours. The life- boat towed her to Cahirciveen, and then returned to Valentia, arriving at 3.45 in the afternoon.—Rewards, £12 14s. 6d..