SPANISH TRAWLER AGROUND IN GALE Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 11.30 on the morning of the 31st December, 1962, the harbour master at Bantry reported that a Spanish trawler had run ashore at Adrigole, and at 1.30 the life-boat Sarah Tilson was launched. There was a north-easterly gale and a very rough sea, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the trawler Rosario Lopez, which had a crew of eight, on the rocks on the north side of Bantry Bay. Another Spanish trawler was standing by and waiting for high water, when she pioposed to try to tow the Rosario Lopez clear. The harbour master was aboard the trawler which was standing by, and at his request the life-boat also stood by. At nine o'clock the Rosario Lopez refloated, and the other trawler and the life-boat escorted her to Bantry quay, which was reached at eleven o'clock. Because of the weather the lifeboat remained at Bantry until the next morning and left for her station at seven o'clock, arriving at 1.30..