Virgen de la Guia
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 11.20 on the night of the 26th of January, 1959, a message was received from the trawler agents at Cahirciveen that a Spanish trawler was sinking twenty-five miles south-west of Skelligs Rock. Another vessel was standing by. At 11.53 the life-boat Rowland Watts put out in a rough sea. There was a south-easterly gale and it was low water. The life- boat found the trawler Virgen de laGuia of Passajes seven miles south-west of Skelligs Rock. She escorted the trawler safely into Valentia harbour and then returned to her moorings, arriving at 5.30. Rewards to the crew, £11 15s. ; reward to the helper on shore, 17s..