Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At 12.50 a.m.

on 20th July, 1966, a small dinghy, with four youths aboard, was reported missing.

At 1.50, following a message saying that boat could not be found in the harbour, the life-boat Ethel Mary left her moorings in a choppy sea and a moderate northerly breeze. It was low water. The life-boat searched and at 4 o'clock sighted the dinghy off Roberts Cove. Her occupants were given medical attention by a visiting doctor who had volunteered to accompany the life-boat. The youths were wrapped in blankets on board the lifeboat, which, with the dinghy in tow, returned to her station at 7.30..