DOCKERS TAKEN OFF DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Arklow, Co. Wicklow. On the evening of the 17th January, 1962, the motor vessel Antilla of Groningen, outward bound from Arklow to Rotterdam with a crew often, grounded 150 yards north-east of Arklow north pier.

Twenty dockers were put aboard the vessel to lighten her cargo and so enable her to refloat. At eleven o'clock on the night of 18th January the vessel's agent asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would land the dockers, as the weather was deteriorating and the local fishing boats were unable to go alongside the Antilla. The life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched at 11.20 in a strong south-westerly wind and a confused sea. The tide was half ebb. The twenty dockers were transferred to the life-boat and landed, and the life-boat reached her station at 11.44..