Baltimore, Co. Cork.—About midnight on the 29th of November, 1954, the steam trawler Picton Castle, of Swan- sea, with a crew of ten, entered Balti- more harbour to shelter from a south- easterly gale. The gale veered to the north-north-west, and the trawler ' dragged her anchor. She was in dan- ger of being driven on the rocks near Cooney Island at the entrance to the harbour, so she burnt flares and made SOS signals. At 12.35 on the 30th the life-boat Sarah Tilson was launched in the teeth of a whole gale, a very rough sea and an ebbing tide. The life-boat stood by the trawler until eight o'clock, but the trawler was then able to leave the harbour and go on her way. The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 8.5.— Rewards, £18 10,?..