Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 4th of June, 1955, a man at Kinsale telephoned to say that the motor fishing boat Inis Caol, of Dublin, had left for the fishing grounds the previous day, with a crew of four, but had not returned.

At 12.30 the life-boat Mary Stanford put out and made a search in a choppy sea. There was a fresh west- south-west breeze, and it was low tide.

About 4.30 the Daunt Rock lightship stated that a fishing boat could be seen under sail about three miles south-east of the lightvessel. The lightkeeper at Rochespoint later re- ported that the Inis Caol was trying to enter Crosshaven harbour, but the tide carried her seawards, and the life-boat found her broken down eighteen miles south of East Kinsale.

She towed her to Cobh and then re- turned to her station, arriving at mid- night. The Courtmacsherry Harbour life-boat was also launched, but was not needed.—Rewards to the crew, £20 5s.; reward to the helper on shore, £1 1*..