SEEN FROM TRAIN Wicklow. At 12.45 a-m- on 25tn October, 1963, a driver of a train bound from Dublin to Wexford saw flares and a flashing light at sea a few miles north of Wicklow. He made an unscheduled stop, cut the engine and made his way down to the sea, where he again saw a red flare and heard shouts for help. He returned to his train, continued to Wicklow, where he made a second stop, and informed the life-boat coxswain. There was a gentle westerly breeze with a smooth sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat J. W.

Archer was launched at 1.5, and after a short search found the motor yacht Christine, of Wicklow, fast on a submerged wreck three miles north of Wicklow harbour.

A tow rope was made fast and the yacht was pulled off the wreck, when it was found she had also fouled her propeller.

The yacht was towed into Wicklow, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 2.30..