Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 22nd of December, 1954, a message was received from Passage East that a small fishing boat was in distress between Duncannon and Broom Head.

At 12.38 the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched in a rough sea. A west-north-west gale was blowing and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the fishing boat three quarters of a mile south-west of Duncannon.

Her sails had carried away, her engine had broken down, and her rudder and thole pins had broken. She was near rocks in shallow water. The life- boatmen fired a line across, pulled her clear and rescued her crew of two. The life-boat then towed the boat to Passage and reached her station again at 4.30.—Rewards, £10 10s..