Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 12th of October, 1949, a fisherman reported that a vessel was on the rocks at East Point, and at 9.35 the life-boat Laurana Sarah Blunt was launched. In a very strong south- westerly breeze, with a swell, she found the Mountain Ash, of Courtown, a converted landing craft, with a crew of four. The life-boat ran out an anchor for her, but as the tide was ebbing could give no other help, so she took off the skipper and landed him at the life-boat station by 11 o'clock.—Re- wards, £9 15s..