DRIFTING FISHING BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 1.15 early on the morning of the 14th June, 1962, the police at Whitehead informed the honorary secretary that a boat was drifting with three people on board off Black Head. The honorary secretary made enquiries of the coastguard at Orlock, and at 1.54 the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings. There was a fresh southerly wind and a rough sea. It was low water. The life-boat found the fishing boat Betsy of Bangor, which had in fact eleven people on board, and took her in tow to Bangor.

The life-boat arrived back at her station at 5.35..