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Daisy Picker

Fenlt, Co. Kerry.—At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 20th of October, 1954, a doctor telephoned that a fishing boat, with a crew of four, was on fire in inner Tralee Bay. At four o'clock the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake put out in a calm sea, with a west-north- west breeze blowing. She made for the bay in an ebbing tide and found the fishing boat Daisy Picker, of Tralee, with a crew of four. She had been dredging for oysters, but had broken down. Her crew had soaked some rags in paraffin and lighted them to attract attention. The life-boat towed her to Fenit and reached her station again at 5.50.—Rewards, £5 8s..