PLEASURE BOAT RUNS AGROUND Ballycotton, Co. Cork. The life-boat coxswain was fishing in his motor boat Star of the Sea a quarter of a mile southwest of Ballycotton lighthouse on the morning of Thursday the 8th of August, 1963, when he saw the 35-foot pleasure boat Bonnie Lass, of Cork, strike the Sound Rock between Ballycotton Island and Small Island. He went to the casualty but was unable to get alongside owing to the falling tide. At 12.40 p.m. the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that the boat had run aground and the coxswain was unable to be of assistance. The life-boat Ethel Mary with the coxswain, who had returned to harbour, in charge was launched at 12.50 with five volunteer crew as the usual crew were all fishing. They proceeded to the casualty with the boarding boat in tow. The life-boat ran an anchor away to the south-east to prevent the casualty bumping and waited until 3.30 when the Bonnie Lass refloated on the tide. It was then found that her engine would not start and the life-boat towed her and the crew of three into harbour, which was reached at 3.45 p.m..