Fenit, Co. Kerry - At 11.10 p.m. on 21st October, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that a fishing boat was ashore at Waherees. The life-boat Hilton Briggs slipped her moorings at 11.45. It was low water.

By means of a small dinghy, which the life-boat had taken with her, two members of the crew boarded the fishing boat Ocean Star at 1.30 a.m.

Lines were taken to the fishing boat but it was decided not to take her in tow. The fishing boat's crew were taken on board the life-boat, and she returned to her station at 4.15 a.m. The Ocean Star became a total wreck..