PAID EXPENSES At 4 p.m. on ist January, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that an unmanned fishing boat had broken away from her moorings and was drifting up the inner Tralee Bay. At the request of her owner, who promised to pay all expenses, the life-boat Hilton Briggs went an hour later in a north north westerly gale force wind and a very rough sea. It was three hours to low water. The life-boat reached the fishing boat at 5.40 and put a towing rope aboard her, towing her to Fenh pier, arriving at 7. The life-boat was back on her moorings at 7.30. The owner of the vessel made a donation to the Institution's funds and also paid all expenses..