TWO SERVICES IN BAD WEATHER Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 7.10 a.m.

on Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the coxswain was told that a local fishing boat which had left for the fishing ground eight miles north of Wicklow had not returned. The weather conditions were worsening. In addition a yacht in the outer harbour had begun to drag onshore. At 7.25 the lifeboat J. W. Archer was launched in a fresh north-easterly wind and rough sea.

The tide was half flood. The life-boat took the yacht, the Gay Gull with two people on board, which had grounded 250 yards from the life-boat house, to safety in the inner harbour. As nothing further had been heard from the fishing boat the life-boat started to search for her. The boat was found with three people on board three miles north of the harbour, and the life-boat stood by her till she reached Wicklow harbour.

The life-boat returned to her station at 9.10a.m..