FIVE RESCUED FROM ROWING BOAT Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 23rd August, 1962, the Orlock coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Blackhead lighthouse that a rowing boat with a crew of five was in difficulties south-east of Blackhead. At 3.45 the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly was launched.

There was a strong westerly breeze and a choppy sea, and the tide was flooding.

The life-boat found the boat a mile off Blackhead, rescued the five people, and towed the boat to Donaghadee, which she reached at 6.40..