THREE TAKEN OFF At 9.30 a.m. on i6th August, 19645 Dublin harbour office told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulty south of Pigeon House. There was a fresh south-easterly wind with a choppy sea and an ebbing tide. At 9.53 the lifeboat Dunleary //made for a position about one mile south-east of Pigeon House, making contact with the yacht, the Lady Sophia, at 10.35. As the yacht was stranded and the weather report promised a southeasterly gale with heavy rain, the three people aboard her were urged to board the life-boat. Arrangements were made for the yacht to be towed off later while the life-boat landed the three occupants and returned to her station at 11.50. The owner of the yacht made a gift to the lifeboat crew..