DRIFTING NEAR ROCKS Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 7.7 p.m.

on i6th May, 1964, the Orlock Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen half a mile east of South Briggs buoy. Seven minutes later the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on temporary duty at the station, put to sea with the second coxswain in charge.

There was a light wind with a choppy sea and a flooding tide. The life-boat found the speedboat Jmgfrau, with three adults and one child aboard, drifting towards rocks at Copeland Island and towed her to Donaghadee harbour by 8.20..