FITTER PUT ABOARD MOTOR TRAWLER Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 17th November, 1962, a message was received that the motor trawler Heather George, of Swansea, had broken down and had anchored half a mile to the north-west of the life-boat station. She needed a fitter, and as no other boat was available the life-boat H. F. Bailey, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 10.15 with the second coxswain in command.

There was a northerly gale, the sea was rough, and it was high water.

The life-boat put a fitter aboard the Heather George at 10-30 and reached her station again twenty-five minutes later..