CANOE RECOVERED AFTER GIRL IS SAVED Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th June, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a canoe with a boy in it had capsized off Blackrock.

At 4.26 the life-boat Dunleary II left her moorings in a south-westerly wind of near gale force and a choppy sea.

The tide was ebbing. The life-boat made for the position and eventually picked up an empty canoe. In the meantime the honorary secretary had rung the Blackrock police, who told him that three life-guards from the Blackrocks swimming baths had swum out and rescued a girl who was wearing a life-jacket. She had been alone in the canoe. The life-boat returned to her station with the canoe on board, arriving at 5.45..