Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 11.14 on the morning of the 3rd of May. 1955, a man rang up to say that he had received a message by radio telephone from his fishing boat Ros Ailither that she had taken in tow the fishing boat Ros Tuaisceart, of Dublin.

The Ros Tuaisceart, which had a crew of three, had fouled her propeller three and a half miles north-east-by-east of Raven Point. The tow ropes parted four times, and the Ros Ailither had difficulty in preventing the Ros Tuais- ceart from driving ashore. At 11.30 the life-boat Douglas Hyde put out in a very rough sea, with a moderate south-westerly gale blowing and a flooding tide. Using her radio direction-finding gear in the poor visibility, the life-boat found the fishing boats four miles east-by-north of Raven Point and passed two tow ropes to the Ros Tuaisceart. The life-boat towed her to Rosslare Harbour and reached her station again at 3.40. This was the first occasion on which radio direction- finding gear fitted in a life-boat had been successfully used to locate a casualty. — Partly permanent paid crew; rewards to other members of the crew, £5 8s.; reward to the helper on shore, 14.s..