DISTRESS SIGNALS Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 8.15 p.m. on 5th December, 1964, a local barkeeper telephoned the honorary secretary to report that distress signals had been seen off Duncannon and that a fishing boat was overdue. The sea was rough with a strong north-westerly breeze and it was two hours before low water. At 8.40 the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out and found the fishing boat, which had a crew of three, at anchor seawards of the bar. The life-boat towed her into Duncannon and returned to her station at 1.35 a.m..