FOUR STRANDED ON ISLAND Howth, Co. Dublin. A woman telephoned the honorary secretary at 7.25 on the evening of Sunday the 29th September, 1963, reporting that a fire had been seen on the island, Ireland's Eye. The Gardai telephoned immediately after confirming the report and after checking there was no other boat available the life-boat A.M.T. left her moorings at 7.45 p.m. with instructions to go to the island and investigate. The coxswain landed two men in the boarding boat on the sheltered side of the island. It was then two hours before high water; the weather was fine with a fresh breeze from the west-south-west.

There was a choppy sea. The landing party found four young people who were stranded owing to engine failure of their punt. The 11-foot plywood boat was carried across the island and brought aboard the life-boat. The four young people were landed at Howth at 8.50 p.m.; the life-boat returning to her moorings at nine o'clock..