Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At half past four in the afternoon on the 20th of February, 1950, pilots reported that distress flares had been seen close to The Hook, Co. Wexford. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched. A strong north-westerly breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The life-boat found the fishing boat Ivy, of Waterford, with a crew of four, disabled by a rope round her propeller and dragging her anchor only a hundred and fifty yards from the rocks. She was too close in for the life-boat to go alongside. A line was therefore fired over her, and a tow rope passed across. The life-boat then took her in tow for Dunmore East, reaching it at 6.30 in the evening.

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