Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—On the 15th of August, 1949, an officer of the Irish Army and a priest, who were on holiday, went out from Drogheda in a motor boat. About four in the after- noon the engine broke down, the boat anchored, and the priest put off in a five-feet dinghy to fetch help. An in- creasing westerly breeze was blowing with a choppy sea. The priest could make no way against it and was carried out to sea. Seeing his companion's difficulties the officer in the motor boat, which was at anchor three miles to the south-east of the life-boat station, sig- nalled with a towel. His signals were seen by the Clogher Head Harbour constable, and at 8.10 in the evening the life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched. She reached the motor boat at 8.45. Leaving a lamp with the officer, she then went in search of the priest, and an hour and a half later found the dinghy drifting south-east near Lambay Island about nine miles from the shore. She rescued the priest and, guided by the lamp, returned to the motor boat at midnight. She fed the rescued men and took them and their motor boat to Drogheda. She then made for Port Oriel and got back to her station at noon on the 16th of August. The rescued priest thanked the crew and made a donation to the Institution.-—Rewards, £18 15*..