Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 9.15 on the evening of the 10th of June, 1958, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that the Ballycotton lighthouse keepers had fired two flares and were flying a flag. At 9.20 the life-boat Mary Stanford put out in a smooth sea.

There was a gentle north-westerly wind and a flood tide. The life-boat found a local fishing boat a mile and a half east of Ballycotton lighthouse drifting out to sea with one man aboard. Her engine had broken down. The life- boat took the fishing boat in tow to the harbour, arriving at 10.35. Rewards to the crew, £7..