Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 9.15 on the morning of the 17th May, 1961, when the life-boat Sarah Tilson was launched to go to the help of a drifting fishing boat, there was a light east-south- easterly wind with a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing and visibility was poor.

The life-boat found that the fishing boat, which was eight miles west-north-west of Fastnet Rock, had broken down.

She towed her to Baltimore, arriving at 2.20 that afternoon..