Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - At 11.25 a.m. on 3istMay, 1967, Lloyd's agent at Wexford told the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the m.v. Naess Louisiana. The life-boat H. F. Bailey, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 12.30 p.m.

in a gentle southerly breeze and a calm sea. It was high water. The life-boat came up with the vessel three quarters of a mile north east of the South Shear buoy and embarked the injured man. He was landed at Rosslare at 2.15 where a doctor and an ambulance were waiting to take him to hospital at Wexford..