Baltimore, Co. Cork.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1953, a message was received from Toe Head, Castletownshend, that the trawler Anne Gaston, of France, which had a crew of nine, had been wrecked at Toe Head. At 11.30 the life-boat Sarah Tilson was launched. The sea was very rough, with a westerly gale blowing. The life-boat found that the nine men had been hauled up the j cliffs by the Coast Life-Saving Service.

She then went to Castletownshend, and the coxswain asked the skipper if the life-boat could help his trawler, but the skipper said that she was a total loss. The life-boat therefore made for her station, where she learned that the yacht Glance, with a m an and a woman on board, was being driven on to the rocks in Church Bay. The life-boat put out again, took off the woman and stood by the yacht until the weather moderated. She reached her station again at 5.30 the next morning. The owner of the yacht made a donation to the funds of the Institution.—Re- wards, £35 5s..