Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 6.20 on the evening of the 10th of March, 1961, the civic guard at Tramore in- formed the honorary secretary that the crew of the motor fishing vessel Provide were burning distress signals about eight and a half miles west of Dunmore East.

At 6.35 the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out in a fresh westerly wind with a moderate sea. She reached the fishing vessel at 7.45 and found she had engine trouble and was drifting. A line was passed, and the life-boat towed the Provide to Dunmore East, returning to her station at 9.45..