Howth, Co. Dublin. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the life-boat R.P.L. left her station for Malahide with twelve collectors for the local flag day on board. She arrived at 2.45, and a quarter of an hour later the coxswain was informed by the Gardai that a yacht was in difficulties off Loch Shinney. There was a rough sea, a westerly gale was blowing, and it was high water. The life-boat made for the position and found the yacht Estelle in tow of another yacht. The Estelle's rudder had broken and the second yacht was making little progress in her efforts to leave the lee shore of Lambay Island. She was in fact drifting nearer the rocks, and the life- boat therefore took the Estelle in tow to Howth, arriving at 5.35. When shereached Howth the harbour master informed the coxswain that another yacht, the Finola, had capsized a mile and a half north of the harbour. The life-boat reached the Finola and found that her crew had been rescued by the motor cruiser Ann Gail. She took the Finola in tow and finally reached her station at 7.10. The owners of the two yachts towed in made monetary gifts to the life-boat crew. Rewards to the crew, £7 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 17s..