Wicklow.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1954, a man at Arklow rang up to say that the 24-feet sailing boat Sarah, of Wicklow, had left Arklow for Wicklow earlier in the day with four men on board. At 7.30 the Wicklow Head lighthouse reported that the boat had been seen about two miles south-east of the Head about one and a half miles off shore. At 7.50 she was seen in Wicklow Bay drifting seawards, and at 9.20 the life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched.

The sea was rough, a strong breeze was blowing from the west, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat towed the Sarah in and reached her station again at 10.35.—Rewards, £8 14s..