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Dos Amigos

WRECKAGE SIGHTED Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 3.45 p.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Dos Amigos of Newlyn had been reported missing. An aircraft taking part in the search had sighted wreckage and the life-boat was asked to search the area. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze with a corresponding sea, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat Douglas Hyde was launched at 4.30 and made for the position about 30 miles south-west by south of Tusker Rock where the aircraft had dropped marker buoys. As the coxswain was later informed by the aircraft that the missing boat had been found and taken in tow by a French fishing vessel to St. Ives, the life-boat was recalled and returned at 1.30 a.m..