Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At four o'clock on the morning of the 18th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the coaster Galtee with a cargo of barium ore was making water thirty miles south of Hook Head.

She was proceeding towards Waterford and had asked for help. When the life- boat Annie Blanche Smith put out at 4.50 there was a near gale from the south causing a rough sea. It was high water. With the aid of the Irish corvette Cliona, which picked the coaster up on her radar screen, the Galtee was met at seven o'clock. The life-boat escorted her to Passage East, and reached her station at 10.15..