Baltimore, Co. Cork.—On the 23rd of June, 1952, a party of twenty-one people, belonging to Skibbereen, left Baltimore for Cape Clear Island eight miles from the mainland, but did not arrive back in the evening when expected. Their friends became an- xious and some of them went to Baltimore by car and told the life- boat coxswain. He saw the honorary secretary who decided that the life- boat Sarah Tilson should be launched, and she left at two o'clock in the morning of the 24th in calm weather.

She went to the island, took the party aboard and returned to Baltimore, arriving at 5.30. A member of the party made a gift to the Institution.— Rewards, £7 12s. 6d..