Cloughey-Portavogie, Co. Down - At 2.55 a.m. on 8th January, 1968, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the French trawler Chenonceaux had gone aground on the rocks at Burial Isle, Birr Point, Co. Down.

The life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow slipped her moorings at 3.10 in a fresh easterly breeze and a moderate sea.

It was three hours before high water.

The life-boat came up with the trawler, which carried a crew of 10, at 3.20. A line was passed and the trawler was towed clear of the rocks at 4.57. The life-boat then returnedto her station which she reached at six o'clock..