MOTOR BOAT BREAKS DOWN ON FISHING TRIP Bally cotton, Co. Cork. At 7.30 on the evening of the 16th September, 1962, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that a visitor had reported that a boat was burning flares off Ballycotton. The life-boat Ethel Mary left her moorings at 7.45 in a gentle north-westerly breeze and a slight sea. It was high water. The life-boat found the 27-foot motor pleasure boat St. Philomena, which had six people on board, broken down with engine trouble two miles east-by-north of Ballycotton harbour.

The motor boat had been out on a fishing trip. The life-boat took her in tow to the harbour and reached her station at 8.46..