Arranmore, Donegal - At 1 p.m. on 27th November, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that a trawler which had broken down was drifting towards the rocks east of Owey island. The life-boat W. M. Tilson slipped her moorings at 1.40 in a fresh north easterly wind with a choppy sea. The tide was flooding.

The life-boat took the trawler, with a crew of four on board, in tow to Burtonport, returning to her station at 6 o'clock. The trawler had been bought in France and was on passage to Killybegs when her engine failed..