Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 6.15 on the morning of the 26th of October, 1954, the Cobh Pilots reported that the three-masted schooner Windermere, of Dublin, had hove to with an engine breakdown, and had asked if the life- boat would escort her to Cork. Her position was given as ten and a half miles south-south-east of Ballycotton Light. At 6.30 the life-boat Mary Stanford put out. There was a very heavy swell, and a fresh gale was blowing from the south-south-east.

The life-boat made for the position in an ebbing tide, rain squalls and fog, and came up with the schooner five miles east-by-south of Ballycotton.

At the master's request the life-boat escorted her to Cork, which she reached about 11.45. The life-boat then went on to Crosshaven, where the life-boat- men had a meal, and afterwards returned to Ballycotton, arriving at three o'clock in the afternoon.— Rewards, £24 4*..