FISHING BOAT TOWED THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Howth, Co. Dublin. At 1.13 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the Baily lighthouse keeper reported that he had received a radio message from Lambay Island that the fishing boat Ranger of Malahide had lost her rudder and was drifting towards Rockabill.

At 1.28 the life-boat A.M.T. put to sea. There was a wind of near gale force blowing from the north-west, the sea was rough, and it was low water.

The owner of the Ranger had swum to Lambay to make contact with the lifeboat station, and he had asked if the life-boat could pick him up off Lambay on her way to the Ranger. The life-boat did so and found the Ranger four and a half miles north-east of Lambay. There was an angling party of twelve on board.

Two members of the life-boat crew boarded the fishing boat, and the lifeboat towed her to Howth. arriving at 5.30..