Donaghadee, Co. Down - On 18th March, 1969, it was reported that four days previously two birdwatchers had been landed on Old Lighthouse island and, due to unfavourable weather conditions, it had not been possible to take them off.

At 3 p.m. the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly, with a dinghy in tow, slipped her moorings in an easterly gale with a very rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The two men were picked up from the island by dinghy and then transferred to the life-boat. They were landed at Donoghadee, and the life-boat returned to her station at 4.30. A donation was made to the Institution's funds..