Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.20 p.m. on 2nd June, 1969, information was received that a yacht had capsized off Blackrock.

At 4.29 the life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings. It was low water. She came up with the yacht Evergreen two miles north east of the pier. The crew of three, who were clinging to the overturned boat, were taken on board the life-boat andlanded at Dun Laoghaire. An ambulance was waiting to take to hospital the youngest of those rescued, who was suffering from exposure. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.46..