AUGUST 27TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.45 A.M. a message was received from the coast watchers at Greenore Point that a vessel had grounded on the Splaugh Rock. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth.

At 9 A.M. the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched, and found the motor schooner Invermore, of Dublin, ashore on the west edge of the Rock. With great skill the coxswain manoeuvred the life-boat through a maze of jagged rocks to where the Invermore lay in a dangerous tide race. The master asked the life-boat to stand by until the tide rose, when the Invermore was able to refloat, and went on her way. The lifeboat then returned to her station, arriving a t 1 1 . 4 0 A . M . - Permanent paid crew.

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