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A Ship's Boat (1)

Dun Laoghaire. Co. Dublin. At 6.15 on the morning of the 20th of June, 1960, the keeper of the East Pier lighthouse informed the honorary secre- tary that a ship's boat was drifting two and a half miles north-north-east of the lighthouse. At 6.40 the life-boat Dunleary II put out in fine weather and a flood tide. She found an empty converted ship's boat waterlogged, and took her in tow. The life-boat reached her station at 7.40. Rewards to the crew, £5; rewards to the helpers on shore, £14s..