ESCORT FOR GERMAN COASTER IN TOW Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 5.50 on the morning of the 14th February, 1963, the naval base at Haulbowline informed the honorary secretary that the steering gear of the coaster Milos of Bremen had broken down off Mizzen Head and that the vessel needed help. At 7.14 the lifeboat Inbhear Mor was launched in a south-easterly gale and a very rough sea.

It was two hours before high water. The life-boat found the Milos in tow of the tanker Irish Holly five miles north-east of Arklow harbour and escorted the two vessels. At 9.30 off Mizzen Head the tow rope parted and the life-boat helped to reconnect the two vessels. When the Milos and Irish Holly had reached calmer water and the wind had moderated the life-boat returned to her station, which she reached at 5.45..