OVERDUE BOAT FOUND AND TOWED TO SAFETY Newcastle, Co. Down. At 9.28 p.m.

on Sunday the 11th of August, 1963, the Kilkeel coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat last seen at 8.45, four miles north of Annalong, was considered overdue at her destination. At 9.55 the life-boat William and Laura was launched in a light to moderate wind and a calm sea. It was half an hour before high water. The life-boat found the casualty with two people on board a mile offshore at 10.30. She was towed to Newcastle and the life-boat returned to her station at 11.15..