Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 9.50 on the morning of the 31st of December, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Nusakan of Rotterdam, which was at anchor in Tralee Bay, had asked for the life-boat to take off a seriously injured man who needed hospital treatment. The life- boat Hilton Briggs put out at 10.30 in a westerly wind of near gale force and a very rough sea. The tide was half flood. The injured man was transferred to the life-boat and landed at 11.35..