TOWED BY TANKER At 11.40 a.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coxswain was informed that a tanker had taken a drifting yacht in tow two miles east of Greystones. The two members of her crew had been taken aboard while, with the yacht in tow, the tanker set off for Wicklow bay. The sea was moderate with a strong north-westerly breeze. At noon the life-boat J. W.

Archer was launched on the ebb tide. She met the tanker three miles north-east of the harbour, took the yacht City of Dublin in tow, and landed her crew. The life-boat reached her station at i p.m..