Kilmore, Wexford.—At half past two in the afternoon on the 8th of August, 1949, a signal fire was seen on the Great Saltee Island. Two men were known to be camping there and, as a strong south-westerly breeze was blowing with a rough sea and the weather was worsening, the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was sent out. She left at 2.45 towing a small boat. Mr. C. M.

Clifford Gibbons, the honorary sec- retary, went with her. It was impos- sible for the life-boat herself to get near the rocky shore of the island, but, with some difficulty, life-boatmen landed in the small boat, and found the two men, who had had little food for forty-eight hours and were very hungry. They were taken to the life-boat, which landed them at her station at 5.15.— Rewards, £6 135..