Wicklow, Co. Wexford. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1960, a man told the honorary secretary that a motor yacht was firing red flares half a mile south of Newcastle Point.

The life-boat J. W. Archer was launched at 4.47 in a gentle to moderate south- easterly breeze. There was a moderate swell and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the motor launch Zara, with a crew of two, close to a lee shore and in danger of dragging her anchor. The coxswain put a man on board to help. A line was made fast, and the Zara was towed into Wicklow, the life-boat returning to her station at 6.45..