Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 11.45 on the night of the 9th of August, 1958, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Dun Angus of Dublin needed help some six to seven miles south of Skelligs Rock, as her engine room was flooded.

At 12.10 early on the 10th of August the life-boat Rowland Watts put out in a rough sea with a south-westerly gale blowing and a flood tide. When she reached the position the motor vessel's master told the coxswain that because of the water in the engine room his radio and lights had failed. The life- boat escorted the Dun Angus to Lawrence Cove, where her master was brought ashore to enable him to contact the vessel's owner. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 5.45 that evening. Rewards to the crew, £40 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 9s..