At 10.40 a.m. on llth June, 1969, information was received that a fishing vessel was in difficulties at Loop head, County Clare. The lifeboat Rowland Watts slipped her moorings at 10.50. The tide was flooding. At 4.15 the life-boat came up with the motor fishing vessel Ros Molt with a crew of four on board. Her engine had broken down and she was drifting. The fishing vessel was taken in tow to Dingle, and the life-boat returned to her station at 1.15 a.m. on 12th June..