Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — At 5 o'clock in the evening on the 7th of January, 1950, information was re- ceived that the sixteen-feet sailing boat Berlin, with a German and his daughter on board, had left Kilmore Quay for Cork at eleven that morning, bound for South America. At two o'clock in the afternoon she had been seen off the Hook Tower. As the weather, already, bad, was worsening, the life-boat crew assembled and watch was kept from Helvick Head. By now there was anxiety for the safety of these two persons. Nothing was heard of them until about four o'clock the next after- noon, when a resident of Dungarvan saw the Berlin sailing close in shore near Ballyvoyle Head in a dangerous position. He telephoned the life-boat authorities, and the life-boat Agnes Cross, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. A whole southerly gale was blowing with heavy seas. The life-boat found the Berlin in Clonea Bay off the Ballinacourty lighthouse, just clear of breaking seas on the shore, and escorted her to deeper water.

Here the second coxswain and a life- boatman boarded her. The exhausted man and girl said they had anchored the previous afternoon, but the cable had parted. The life-boat towed the Berlin to Helvick pier and arrived back at her station at 4.30. The life-boat honorary secretary, Mr. P. J. Morrissey, lodged the rescued people for the night.

The Falmouth life-boat had rescued them and saved their boat on the 20th November, 1949, when they were in difficulties off Portscatho.—Rewards, £17 2s..