LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Finbar

Baltimore, Co. Cork. On the 6th of April, 1958, the fishing boat Finbar of Skibbereen, on passage from Baltimore to Clonakilty, broke down with engine trouble just outside Baltimore harbour.

She was drifting helplessly and her owner, who was ashore, informed the honorary secretary. At six o'clock in the evening the life-boat Sarah Tilson was launched in a rough sea. There was a moderate north-easterly breeze and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the Finbar off Black Point with a crew of six and took her in tow to the harbour. She reached her station at 7.15. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3..