Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8.30 on the morning of the 16th of November, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed a boat about seven miles to the east heading out to sea. She appeared to have stopped and was seen through a tele- scope to be drifting towards Knock- adoon Head. She was kept under observation and she continued to drift, so at 9.45 the life-boat Mary Stanford put out. There was a heavy swell, a fresh south-south-east wind was blow- ing, and the tide was ebbing.. The life-boat came up with the fishing boat Maid of Loughshinney, of Dublin, which had a crew of two, six miles cast-by-north of Ballycotton. She was three hundred yards from rocks and her engine was not running pro- perly. The life-boat towed her to Ballycotton, reaching her station again at 12.40.—Rewards to the crew, £10 10s.; reward to the helper on shore, 14s..