Youghal, Co. Cork. While the lifeboat coxswain was fishing off Blackball Head on the afternoon of I5th June, 1965,, he noticed that a salmon yawl was in difficulties and being swept seawards. The coxswain returned to harbour, mustered the life-boat crew, and -at 1.40 p.m. the life-boat Herbert John was launched.

There was a westerly gale, the sea was rough and the tide ebbing. The life-boat rescued the yawl's crew of three, recovered their nets and towed the boat to Youghal, arriving at 3.35 p.m..