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Lydia Ann

Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. About eight o'clock in the morning of the 7th of November, 1951, with a rough sea running and a south-easterly breeze blowing, the life-boat motor mechanic was on the lookout on Helvick Head and saw the motor fishing boat Lydia Ann, of Waterford, trying to sail to Helvick. She reached the mouth of Dungarvan Harbour, but anchored there as she found that she could not get in under sail. She was in a dan- gerous place near the Gaynor Rocks, and the life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 8.30. She found that the engine of the Lydia Ann, which had a crew of five, had broken down. She towed her to Helvick Pier arriving at her station again at 9.30.—Rewards, £6 195..