Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 7.20 on the evening of the llth of November, 1959, the coxswain received a message from a Wexford fish merchant that the fishing boat Oak Leaves had not returned to Wexford. When last seen near Blackwater Head she had been thought to have engine trouble.

The life-boat Douglas Hyde left her moorings at 7.45 in a smooth sea.

There was a gentle northerly wind and the tide was half ebb. The life-boat found the fishing boat, with a crew of three, two miles north-east of Black- water Head with her engine broken down. She took her in tow to Rosslare Harbour and reached her moorings at 11.15. Partly paid permanent crew.

Rewards to the crew, £7 ; reward to the helper on shore, 15s..