Howth, Co. Dublin. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1959, the Baily lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a doctor was needed to attend a woman ex- pecting a baby on Lambay Island.

The weather and the state of the tide precluded the use of local boats, and at 4.15 the life-boat R.P.L. put out with a punt on deck and a doctor on board. There was a rough sea, with a strong southerly wind blowing and aflood tide. Shortly afterwards the lighthouse keeper reported that the child had been born, but the doctor was landed at five o'clock, and after an hour and a half he informed the coxswain that he would have to remain overnight as complications had set in.

The life-boat returned to Howth, arriving at 7.20. Rewards to the crew, £8 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4s..