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BOAT DRIFTING Clogher Head, Co. Louth. The lifeboat George and Caroline Ermen had been at sea during the afternoon of 26th June, 1965, escorting boats attending the Boyne Yacht Club regatta and had just returned to her station when a message was received, at 7.30 p.m., that a small boat had been seen drifting out to sea with two people on board, three miles off Clogher Head. The life-boat immediately put to sea again. There was a west-northwesterly wind and a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat found the small boat with her outboard engine broken down and she was taken in tow to Clogher Head, arriving at 9 p.m. The owner of the boat made a donation to the funds of the Institution..