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A Fishing Boat

Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford.—At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1956, a telephone message was received that a fishing boat had been driven ashore on the Great Keragh, and that a man and a woman had waded in from her. At 8.30 the life-boat AnnIsabella Pyemont was launched. The sea was rough, there was a moderate north-westerly breeze, and it was high water. The life-boat reached the posi- tion, and using her searchlight man- aged to locate the two people. They were taken on board the life-boat by vise of their own boat, which had not been damaged, and the life-boat re- turned to Kilmore, arriving back at 11.15.—Rewards to the crew, £9 16*.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9..