Valentia, Co. Kerry. — At 10 o'clock on the night of the 26th of June, 1949, the Cahirciveen Civic Guard reported a rowing boat, with a broken oar and one adult and four children on board, drifting seawards off Kells. Twenty minutes later the life-boat B.A.S.P. left her moorings. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, but the sea was calm.

There was fog. Using her searchlight the life-boat found the rowing boat two miles north-west of Kells. Another boat was there, which took the boat with the broken oar in tow,' and the life-boat escorted them to the shore, reaching her station again at 3.25 the next morning.—Rewards, £11 Is..