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A Fishing Vessel

ANXIOUS ABOUT SON Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 12.30 p.m. on 2Oth June, 1964, a woman caller, Mrs. Moore, telephoned the honorary secretary to say that her eleven year old son and his uncle, who had put to sea together in a 26-foot fishing vessel, were more than three hours overdue from a fishing trip, although no distress signals had been seen. The sea was moderate with a corresponding north-westerly breeze and it was two hours after high water. The life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out at 1.20 a.m. The cross-channel ship Pluto saw the maroons and, having volunteered to help, patrolled the coast 10 miles south of the suspected area. The fishing boat, which was not picked up on the ship's radar, was seen about an hour after dawn south of Bunmahon. She was taken in tow to Boatstrand by the lifeboat which reached her station at 7.30..