Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the Coast Life-saving Service at Skerries telephoned that two boys were stranded on an uninhabited island off Skerries.

At 7.50 the life-boat George and Caro- line Ermen was launched. There was a moderate sea, and a gale was blowing from the north-west. The life-boat searched the island coast with a searchlight, but found nothing and went to Skerries. There a man, who had previously seen the boys on the island, boarded the life-boat, which again left for the island, this time taking a small boat with her. Four men also put off in a shore-boat, and the shore-boat found the boys on the sheltered side of the island lying under an upturned boat. The men rescued them and transferred them to the life- boat, which made for Skerries. The shore-boat then got into difficulties, and the life-boat rescued the four men who were on board and towed their boat to Skerries, arriving at one o'clock. She landed the four men and two boys and left for her station an hour later, arriving at six o'clock.— Rewards, £29 10s. 6d..