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Siobhan

Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At two o'clock on the morning of the 13th of September, 1959, the radio station at Malin Head informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was in distress sixteen miles eact of Tory Island. At 2.30 the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings in calm weather with the tide about half ebb.

She found the fishing boat Siobhan of Killybegs with broken oil pipes. The boat, which had a crew of four, was taken in tow to Burtonport, and the life-boat reached her station at 4.30.

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