Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 4.50 in the afternoon of the llth of April, 1949, the yacht Tory, which was being taken by a crew of two to new owners in Liverpool, was seen making for the harbour. A fresh south-west wind was blowing, with a heavy swell, it was dangerous to attempt to cross the bar, and the life-boat coxswain warned her to keep outside. Her engine failed, and the flowing tide carried her on to the beach to the north of the North Pier.

A fishing boat was near, but could do nothing to help her, and at five o'clock the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched.

She pulled the yacht off the beach and returned to her station at six o'clock.—Property salvage case..