Newcastle, Co. Down. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 1st of January1959, a passing motorist told the motor mechanic that a fishing trawler anchored off Mullartown Point was burning distress flares. At 3.40 the life-boat William and Laura was laun- ched in a heavy swell. There was a near gale blowing from the south- south-west, and it was high water.

The life-boat found the fishing trawler Rosebud of Dundalk with a crew of five. Her engine had broken down and she was taken in tow to Newcastle harbour, arriving at 5.10. Rewards to the crew, £9 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 11s..