Clogher Head, Co. Louth. At 9.40 on the morning of the llth of Novem- ber. 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Selectiv- ity, on passage from Glasgow to Swansea, had a sick man on board.

After speaking to the vessel's agents he decided that the life-boat should put out. At 11.45 the life-boat George and Caroline Ermen was launched in a calm sea with a light south-westerly breeze blowing and an ebb tide. She em- barked a doctor at Port Oriel before making for a position east of Clogher Head, where she met the Selectivity.

The doctor gave medical attention to two men who had been injured. One, who was more seriously injured than the other, was transferred to the life- boat and brought ashore for hospital treatment. The life-boat reached her station at 3.20. Rewards to the crew, £10 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £7 8s..