Baltimore, Co. Cork - At 7.30 p.m.

on 29th May, 1966, the Hare Island Post Office informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had grounded on a rock between Hare Isle and Cunamur Point (Taylor's Rock). The life-boat Sarah Tilson was launched at 8.30 in a moderate south-easterly wind and a choppy sea. It was low water. She reached the yacht Hermus at 9.5 but was unable to get near her until 10.30. The life-boat towed the casualty off the rock at 11.35 and escorted her back to Baltimore harbour, arriving at her station at 12.30 a.m. The skipper of the yachtmade a gift to the life-boat crew..