Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—A fishing boat was noticed at anchor three miles north of the pier on the 8th and 9th of December, 1949, and by the afternoon of the 10th she had not moved. As the weather had worsened, and the father of the skipper was anxious, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 4.45.

There was a moderate north-north-east gale, with a. very rough sea and sleet.

She found the motor fishing boat St. Gerard, of Arklow, whose crew of four were running short of food. Owing to the state of the sea the skipper had not weighed anchor but with the life- boat standing by, he did so. The life- boat then escorted his boat to the harbour and reached her station again at seven in the night.-—Rewards, £4 2s.