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Tuanjim

TOWED TO HOWTH At 5.45 p.m. the next day, the harbour master told the coxswain, in the honorary secretary's absence, that the cabin cruiser Tuanjim was aground on the rocks at Ireland's Eye. The tide was ebbing and would soon be at low water, but although there was a strong westerly breeze the cabin cruiser was in smooth water. At 6.30 the life-boat H. F. Bailey, on temporary duty at the station, went to Ireland's Eye with the boarding boat in tow. On her arrival the coxswain sent the boarding boat in with a veering line to tow the casualty off. The cabin cruiser was brought back to Howth harbour by 7.10..