Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At midnight on the 5th of August, 1952, the wife of a man, who had gone fishing in his motor boat Rapid with two others at 7.0 that morning, telephoned that they should have returned at 7.0 in the evening. There was a slight swell, with a fresh easterly breeze blowing and fog. At 12.10 in the early morn- ing of the 6th the life-boat Mary Stanford left her moorings. Using her searchlight she found the Rapid ashore at Knockadoon Head a quarter of a mile west-north-west of Capel Island.

Her engine had broken down and the three men had beached her. The life-boat towed her to Ballycotton, reaching her station again at 6.30.— Rewards, £12 5s..