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Dunmorc East, Co. Waterford. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of April, 1958, the owner of a local hotel told the honorary secretary that a young man had fallen over the cliffs at Portally while shooting seals and was lying unconscious. As he could not be reached from land, the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out ten minutes later, towing the boarding boat. The sea was calm and a light south-westerly wind was blowing, and there was fog. The tide was flooding. The life-boatreached the position, recovered the man, who was badly injured, and brought him to Dunmore East, where he was landed at 6.15. Rewards to the crew, £7..