Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1954, the owner of the yacht Mabel, of Dun Laoghaire, told the coxswain that he had tried to take the yacht out of the harbour, but that she had broken down and was now secured to the pier.

She was in danger of being damaged against the pier, and the owner asked for help. No other boat was available, and at 1.30 the life-boat Douglas Hyde left her moorings. The sea was choppy, a moderate north-westerly gale was blowing, and the tide was half ebb.

The life-boat towed the Mabel, which had a crew of four, to a safe anchorage in Rosslare Bay and reached her moorings again at three o'clock.— Rewards, 15s..