Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — At eleven in the morning of the 13th of March, 1952, a man left Cork for Ballycotton in a motor punt. He had not arrived by eight o'clock that night. The keepers of the Power Head Lighthouse, eight miles west of Ballycotton, re- ported that he had passed Power Head at 6.30, but he was still missing at nine o'clock, and the life-boat Mary Stanford left her moorings. There was a heavy swell, with an easterly breeze and thick fog. The life-boat found the punt one and a half miles south-south-west of Ballycotton Light, escorted her to harbour and reached her station again at 10.10 that night.

The owner thanked the life-boatmen.

—Rewards, £7 11s..