Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 10.5 on the night of the 22nd of June, 1954, the Kilkeel coastguard rang up to say that the motor boat Nautigel, of Warrenpoint, had capsized in Carling- ford Lough, and that three people were clinging to her. At 10.25 the life-boat George and Caroline Ermen was launched. The sea was rough, a north-westerly breeze was blowing and the tide was half ebb. The life-boat searched the lough for survivors with the help of her searchlight and found the boat, which had a foul propeller and had sprung a leak, drifting, partly submerged, three miles off Carlingford village. She towed it to the shore and handed it over to the Civic Guard.

She then resumed the search and recovered a body of a woman a mile south-east of Carlingford lighthouse.

She found no other bodies or survivors and reached her station again at 9.30 on the 23rd. Seven people, including a seven-year-old boy, lost their lives.

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