COLD AND EXHAUSTED MEN GIVEN RUM Youghal, Co. Cork. At 3.15 on the afternoon of Thursday the 22nd August, 1963, the coxswain saw a capsized dinghy outside the harbour. At 3.25 the life-boat Herbert John was launched in a fresh south-westerly breeze and smooth sea. It was low water. The life-boat found the dinghy off Blackball Head.

The dinghy had been righted and one of the two men had managed to get back on board. The other was still in the water. The life-boat embarked the two men who were cold and exhausted and gave them rum. She then took the dinghy in tow and returned to her station at 4.15..