Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 6th of April, 1953, the radio operator of the Tuskar Rock lighthouse on shore received a wireless message from the lighthouse that a ship's boat had been seen near the rock. At 2.40 the life- boat Douglaa Hyde left her moorings in a choppy sea with a moderate north-westerly breeze blowing, but the ship's boat reached the rock. It.

contained four men, the crew of the auxiliary schooner Susan Vittery, of Cork, which had sprung a leak and sunk early that morning two miles west- north-west of the rock, and a dog.

The life-boat learnt from the light- house that the men were on the rock, and she took them and the dog on board and towed their boat to Rosslare harbour, arriving at five o'clock.— Rewards, £5..