Windrise
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8.10 on the morning of the 4th of Nov- ember, 1952, the Department of In- dustry and Commerce in Dublin rang up to report a wireless message received by Tuskar Rock from the Holyhead coast- guard. The trawler Windrise, the message said, had wirelessed that she had lost or damaged her rudder and was drifting northwards a mile south of Blackwater Head. The life-boat Douglas Hyde left her moorings at 8.30 in a very rough sea with a moder- ate southerly gale blowing, and came up with the trawler half a mile off shore and a mile north of Blackwater Head. Two fishing boats were trying to hold her head to the sea, but they could not stop her drifting. The life- boat took her in tow with difficulty, and made for Rosslare Harbour. She made very slow progress in the bad weather, but reached the harbour and made the trawler secure there at 2.15.—Property Salvage Case..