Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1959, a message was received from Valentia radio that the trawler Ros Airgead of Dublin was drifting with a trawl foul of her propeller seven miles west of Bray Head. At 4.30 the life- boat Rowland Watts left her moorings in a moderate south-easterly wind and a moderate sea. The tide was flooding.

The life-boat found the trawler, with a crew of six, and took her in tow to Portmagee quay, reaching her station at 8.5. Rewards to the crew, £10 10s. ; reward to the helper on shore, 15s..