Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—About 9.30 on the morning of the 30th of May, 1951, the Coast Life Saving Ser- vice telephoned that a yacht had run on the rocks one and a half miles west of Mine Head. At 9.45 the life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched with a small boat in tow, and accompanied by the Honorary Secretary, Mr. P. J. Morrissey.

There was a swell, with an easterly breeze blowing. The life-boat anchored off the Longships Rock, where she could see the yacht Smew 1, of Southampton, high and dry and wedged on the rocks.

Some life-boatmen manned the small boat, and rowed in to her. They found her damaged. The owner and his wife had abandoned her; but they saw the owner half way up a cliff and extracted information from him about the yacht's fittings. Then they ran out anchors and tried to pump and bale her out; but she was badly holed and could not be dried out. They therefore took off the crew's personal belongings and other valuable gear, and carried them back to the life-boat, which reached her station again at 4.45 that afternoon.

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