SEVEN CHILDREN ON BOARD Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At i.oo p.m.

on 24th August, 1965, a lo-foot fibreglass dinghy left Ballycotton for Garryvoe Strand with a man and seven children on board. The wind was then south-west force 3, but ten minutes later it veered to the north-west and became near gale force. The boat was seen to be taking heavy seas on board. The life-boat crew were assembled and the life-boat Ethel Mary put out on a flooding tide, reaching the dinghy half a mile north-east of the harbour and escorting her to the Strand.

The Life-boat reached her station at 2.20 p.m..