Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 11.25 on the night of the 23rd of June, 1955, the Skerries Sailing Club reported that the 17-feet yacht Deirdre, of Rush, with a crew of two, had left Rush at seven o'clock for Skerries, but wasnow drifting off Drogheda Bar in a southerly direction. At 11.50 the life-boat George and Caroline Ermen was launched in a squally south- westerly wind, with a rough sea, and a flooding tide. She searched for the yacht all night, and at six o'clock on the morning of the 24th found her ten miles east-north-east of Skerries.

Her crew were too wet and cold to make a rope fast from the life-boat, so a member of the life-boat crew boarded her. He secured the rope, helped the two men into the life-boat and was then joined in the Deirdre by another man from the life-boat. These two men steered the Deirdre while she was in tow of the life-boat, which reached Skerries at 8.30. Here the rescued, who had been given rum and hot soup, were landed and the yacht put ashore.

The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at one o'clock in the afternoon. The rescued men express- ed their appreciation. The Howth life-boat was also launched but was not needed.—Rewards to the crew, £20 Is.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £10 18s. Qd..