Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 5.30 in the evening, on the 31st of May, 1950, in calm weather, the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched for exercise with the honorary secretary, Mr. C. M.

Clifford Gibbons, and the district engineer on board. She was about two miles south-west of Kilmore when she saw a small outboard motor boat in difficulties, near the race at the south end of Great Saltee Island. She turned out to be a fourteen-feet flat- bottomed boat, with a crew of two, whose engine had broken down. As she was in a very dangerous position, the life-boat towed her clear, and after assuring the men that she would tow them in later, resumed her exercise.

On her way home she took the boat in tow again and reached the harbour at 8.15.—Rewards, £12 12s..