Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.15 on the morning of the 16th of December, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed by Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead was drifting five miles west of Bray Head with a defective fuel pipe, and that she needed help. When the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 8.30 there was a calm sea and dense fog. It was low water. The life-boat reached the Ros Airgead at ten o'clock and towed her to Valentia pier, which was reached at 12.30. She then returned to her station, arriving at one o'cloc.