CREW TAKEN OFF MOTOR BOAT IN GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 7.40 on the evening of the 26th August, 1962, the garda informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen at first in the direction of Rockabill and later from a boat at Lough Shinney. The life-boat A.M.T. put out at 8.4 and made for Lough Shinney. There was a westerly gale and a choppy sea, and it was one hour before high water. The life-boat reached the lough at 9.5 and found the motor boat Ark of Connemara of Dun Laoghaire with her engine broken down.

Her anchors were holding, and it was decided to leave the boat in what was a reasonably sheltered position. The lifeboat took off the motor boat's crew of four and returned to her station, arriving at 10.35..