Wicklow.—At 5.*50 on the evening of the 25th of August, 1951, the Wicklow Head Lightkeeper reported a yacht sounding her siren and driving towards the rocks. At 6.0 the life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched. There was a heavy sea with a strong south-westerly wind blowing. She found the motor yacht Desina, of Dun Laoghaire, one mile south-west of Wicklow Head with a crew of three. She had lost her rudder and had anchored, but was dragging fifty yards from the rocks.

The life-boat went alongside her, made fast a rope and held her while her crew got the anchors on board. The life-boat then took her in tow, but the yacht sheered badly, so the three men were taken off and the Lady Kylsant towed the Desina to Wicklow. They arrived at 7.35. The owner thanked the life-boatmen and made a gift to the funds of the Institution.—Property Salvage Case..