Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1960, the honorary secretary was in- formed by Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead had fouled her propeller and needed help. When the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, with the second coxswain in command, put out at 3.20, it was high water. There was a northerly gale with a rough sea, and it was snowing. The life-boat reached the trawler at 5.15 and took her in tow. Because of the weather conditions the second coxswain decided to return via the Portmagee Channel. When two miles north-west of Bray Head the tow parted, and it was not reconnected until the trawler had drifted about five miles to a position half a mile south of Puffin Island. The trawler was then towed to Valentia pier, which was reached at 11.15. The life-boat returned to her station at 11.50. This was the Valentia life-boat's second service to the same trawler within a week..