Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1959, the Malin Head radio station informed the honorary secretary of a distress message received from a Dutch coaster stating that she had broken down north of Arran light. Her position was not exactly known. The radio station could not make contact with the casualty, and at three o'clock the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake put out in a calm sea. A light north- westerly breeze was blowing, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the motor vessel Catharina- W of Delf- zijl four miles north of Arran light.

Temporary repairs had been made to the vessel's engines, and at her master's request the second coxswain was putaboard to pilot the coaster to Burton- port. The life-boat escorted her there and reached her station at eight o'clock.

The master of the Catharina-W ex- pressed his thanks. Rewards to the crew, £11 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1..