LIFE-BOATMAN DIES ABOARD FISHING BOAT Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 10.20 p.m.

on Monday the 12th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that an 18-foot punt, which had been taken out lobster potting, appeared to have nobody on board although her engine was stili running. At 10.25 the fife-boat Ethel Mary was launched in a gentle north-westerly breeze and smooth sea.

The tide was half flood. The life-boat found the fishing boat four and a half miles north-east of the life-boat station.

She had difficulty in getting alongside the boat, which was going around in circles because it was attached to the lobster pots. The life-boat found a man on board who appeared to be dead. He was taken on board the life-boat and was taken to Ballycotton where a priest and doctor were waiting. The lobster boat was towed in. The man, who was a member of the life-boat crew, had died of heart failure. The life-boat returned to her station at 9.50..