WAVING AN OAR Wicklow. At 3.20 p.m. on 25th July, 1964, while the life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow, on temporary duty at Wicklow, was returning to her station from a flag day at Greystones, a small rowing boat was seen drifting about three miles south-east of Greystones in a choppy sea with a moderate south-south-easterly breeze.

Someone aboard the rowing boat was waving an oar to which he had tied a coat, and the life-boat went alongside. Aboard the boat were six people who had been unable to prevent her from drifting steadily out to sea on the strong ebb tide because one of their oars had broken. Four children were taken aboard the life-boat while one of the life-boat's crew boarded the rowing boat to steer her. After towing the boat to Greystones, the life-boat returned to her station at Wicklow..