Newcastle, Co. Down. — At 9.15 in the morning of the 19th of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was drifting off Cranfield. Shortly afterwards they reported her in distress, and at 9.50 the life-boat L.P. and St.

Helen was launched. A moderate westerly gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat found the motor yacht Schollevaer, of Dun Laoghaire—to whose help the Cloughey life-boat had gone two days before— half a mile north-east of Cranfield Poirit.

There was no one on board. Her crew had been taken off by a local motor boat. The life-boat then -went to Greencastle and there met the owner of the yacht, who asked him to tow her to Kilkeel. This the coxswain agreed to do, as the yacht was in a very dangerous position. With some difficulty the owner and two life- boatmen boarded the Schollevaer, and the life-boat took her to Kilkeel, arriving back at her station at 5.15 in the afternoon.—Rewards, £30 9s..