Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 4.30 in the morning, on the 1st of August, 1950, the Valentia life-boat authorities received a telephone message from the Dingle Civic Guard. The local motor fishing vessel Ocean Star, with a crew of two, was overdue and the other fishing boats could not find her. At 4.56 the life-boat B.A.S.P. left her moorings and searched widely in a very rough sea, with a fresh west-south-west gale blowing. She spoke two trawlers, but they had not seen the Ocean Star.

Accordingly, at 8.20, the Valentia life- boat authorities telephoned the Fenit life-boat station for help, and at 9.15 the life-boat City of Bradford I, on temporary duty at the station, was launched to search Brandon Bay and as far as the Blaskets. But it was the B.A.S.P. after all who found the Ocean Star: at 10.30, in Dingle Bay. She had had an engine breakdown, but it was now repaired and she was making for Dingle. The B.A.S.P. escorted her to Dingle lighthouse and reached her station again at 12.45 that after- noon. The City of Bradford I arrived at Fenit at six in the evening.— Rewards, Valentia, £14 6*.; Fenit, £12 Is..