Baltimore, Co. Cork.—At 1.5 in the morning of the llth of May, 1952, the S.S. Moveria, of Glasgow, wirelessed that she had broken down nineteen miles south-west of Mizen Head and needed tugs to take her to harbour.

Valentia Radio Station passed this information to the life-boat station at 2.30. The life-boat kept in contact by wireless with the station on Mizen Head, and at 4.10 in the afternoon Mizen Head reported that the Moveria was now drifting helplessly eastwards. At 5.30 she was reported to be three miles from the Head, and at 6.45 in the evening the life-boat Sarah Tilson was launched. A very rough sea was running, with a strong south-westerly breeze blowing. The life-boat found the steamer at anchor, with several vessels standing by, but they made for harbour when they heard the bad weather forecast. The life-boat remained by the Moveria all night, and at 8.30 the next morning the tug Turmoil arrived from Fal- mouth. The Moveria weighed anchor, the Turmoil took her in tow, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 3.45 that afternoon. She had been at sea twenty-one hours.—• Rewards, £34 4s..