FIRST SERVICE CALL TO NEW IRISH LIFEBOAT Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, a report was received that spectators at the Howth sailing club regatta had seen a yacht in distress. There was a strong ebb tide running in Howth Sound, and a strong north-westerly wind was blowing with a moderate sea. The life-boat A.M.T. was launched for the first time on service at 5.16. She found the auxiliary cruiser Janet towing the fourteen- foot dinghy Dainty. The dinghy was waterlogged, and her owner and another man, both of whom had been taken aboard the Janet, were suffering from exposure and cramp as they had been in the water for over an hour.

They were transferred to the life-boat and given rum and hot soup. A doctor was waiting at Howth harbour to meet them when they were landed. The lifeboat finally reached her station at 6.30..