DRIFTING LOBSTER PUNT Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 11.20 a.m.

on 2yth July, 1964, the keeper of Ballycotton lighthouse told the honorary secretary that a lobster fishing boat with two men on board had broken down and was drifting "2\ miles south-east of Ballycotton lighthouse. There was a choppy sea with a fresh south-westerly breeze.

At 11.30, when the life-boat Ethel Mary put out, the tide was at low water. The lobster fishing boat was found drifting to seawards with her engine broken down.

She was towed to Ballycotton and the life-boat returned to her station at 12.30 p.m..