Valentla, Co. Kerry.—At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the tanker Dona Myrto, of Panama, with a gravely ill man aboard, was expected to arrive off Yalentia at midnight. At 10.15 the life-boat William and Harriot, on temporary duty at the station, put out with a doctor and two nurses aboard. There was a moderate sea, with a gentle south-westerly breeze and fog. The tide was flooding. The life-boat came up with the Dona Myrto two miles north-west of Skelligs Rock. A stretcher was passed aboard her, and the sick man, who was the fireman, was transferred to the life-boat. The life-boat returned to her station, arriv- ing at 2.30. The man was taken to the hospital by ambulance.—Rewards to the crew, £12 16s.; reward to the helper on shore, 16s..