Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8 o'clock in the evening of the 26th of June, 1949, a Wexford man telephoned that his son had put out in the yacht Trapper at 11 o'clock that morning and had not returned, and that a message had been received that a capsized boat could be seen in Wexford Bay. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 8.35, with the father and the branch secretary, Mr. W. J. B.

Moncas, on board. A moderate south- westerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was choppy. The life-boat found the Trapper submerged on the Cockle Bank, half a mile west of Raven Point, but saw .no trace of the son. He was drowned. The life-boatmen pumped out the yacht and towed it to harbour, reaching her station again at 12.5 the next morning. The father made gifts to the Institution and to the life-boat crew.—Partly permanent paid crew.— Rewards, £5 18s..