Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1960, a Mayday message was received from Valentia radio station that the fishing vessel Ros Ceaion was adrift in Blasket Sound and needed help. There was a moderate south-westerly wind with a corresponding sea, and the tide was flooding. At 3.5 the life-boat Rowland Watts was launched. She found the Ros Ceaion close to the rocks at Inish Nabro. The fishing vessel had lost her propeller and was in extreme danger.

The life-boat took her in tow and berthed her at Portmagee at 9.5. She then returned to her station, arriving at 1.45 in the morning. Because of the weather conditions all the fishing vessel's gear had to be abandoned..