Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 5.38 in the evening on the 22nd of February, 1950, the coxswain saw a fishing boat drifting on to the rocks off Cromwell Point, clearly in need of prompt help. Seven minutes later the life-boat B.S.A.P.

put out in a strong south-easterly breeze. After half an hour, she came up with the boat Pride of Ballin- skelligs, which carried a crew of two.

She was disabled by an engine failure.

The life-boat took the boat in tow when she was only one hundred yards from the rocks, and brought her safely to Cahirciveen at 7.22, arriving back at the life-boat station at 7.52.—Rewards, £7 8s..