Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 9.10 on the evening of the 3rd of Decem- ber, 1959, a Mayday message wasreceived from two trawlers that they were ashore on the rocks four miles north-east of Dunmore East. The life- boat Annie Blanche Smith left her moorings at 9.20 with the boarding boat in tow. There was a moderate north-westerly wind with a rough sea.

It was one hour after high water. When the life-boat reached the trawlers three members of the life-boat crew went alongside in the boarding boat. They found that the crew of one trawler had managed to jump ashore, and the other crew said they would do the same.

The life-boat stood by until the crew of the second trawler were safely ashore and then returned to her station, arriving at 11.25. Rewards to the crew, £10 10s. ; reward to the helper on shore, 14s..