Valentia, Co. Kerry. At i .45 a.m. on 27th December, 1965, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, notified the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Maracove of New York, on passage to Rotterdam, had requested that the life-boat meet her at a place to be arranged to take off an injured seaman requiring medical treatment.

A rendezvous was fixed and the lifeboat Rowland Watts set out at 9.5 a.m.

on the following morning, 28th December, in a moderate south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing.

The life-boat met the motor vessel five miles north-west of Bray Head and took the injured man and a doctor on board.

They were taken to Valentia, then conveyed by helicopter to Dublin. The lifeboat returned to her station at i p.m..