LIFE-BOAT ASSISTS GROUNDED MOTOR BOAT Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 7.35 p.m.

on Sunday the 21st of July, 1963, the Orlock coastguard told the motor mechanic that a man had reported a boat stranded on the rocks at the north end of Copeland Island with three or four men waving and shouting. The motor mechanic decided to launch the life-boat. The reserve life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 8.10 in a light southerly wind and a slight sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat took the boarding boat in tow to the island and some of the crew were sent ashore.

The motor boat's crew were in no immediate danger and the boarding boat stood by until the Violet refloated. The life-boat then towed her into deeper water and returned to her station, arriving at 9.10 p.m..