Galway Bay.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 5th of February, 1951, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported a French trawler on the rocks one and a half miles south-east of Kilronan pier. Another French trawler had called at Kilronan to ask for help. At 4.30 the life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched in a strong north*-westerly breeze and very rough sea. She found that the trawler was the Lieutenant Alphonse Herbez, of Concarneau. She stood by her until ten o'clock, and then returned to Kilronan before low water. After her crew had had a meal they put out again at eleven o'clock; but the trawler's crew would not leave their ship. She was therefore, with great difficulty, connected both to the other trawler and to the life-boat; and their combined efforts refloated her at high water.

The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 5.50 in the after- noon.—Rewards, £36 8s. 6d..