THREE WERE STRANDED Howth, Dublin. At 8.53 p.m. on 8th July, 1964, the Howth garda told the honorary secretary that a rowing boat was reported to be in difficulties off Lambay.

There was a moderate to fresh westerly breeze with a choppy sea. The tide was two hours before high water. At 9.9 the life-boat H. F. Bailey, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings to reach Lambay 45 minutes later. After searching until midnight, during which time the honorary secretary made enquiries for any reports of boats missing in the area, the search was called off. The garda, meanwhile, had received a report about people stranded on Ireland's Eye.

The life-boat returned to Howth for her boarding boat and on reaching Ireland's Eye found two men and a boy stranded there, together with another boat with two men aboard who had gone to help them. All were brought safely back to Howth where the life-boat remoored at 2.40 a.m..