OCTOBER 20TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEX-FORD. At 6.30 in the evening a small tramp steamer was seen on her way westwards inside the Coningbeg Lightship, when two German aeroplanes attacked her. One aeroplane dropped three bombs, but they all missed, and the aeroplanes made four or five machine-gun attacks, but the steamer put up a spirited resistance. Both aeroplanes then made off southwards, and the steamer continued on her way to Waterford. At seven o’clock another ship was seen coming up from the east, and at about 7.20 she was attacked by a single aeroplane when about two miles S.E. of the Little Saltee Island.

This ship, too, put up a stout resistance, and a big flame was suddenly seen to go up. It was then 7.30. The motor life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was at once launched and got away at 7.45. She made for the scene of the attack, but could find nothing. The Coningbeg Lightship was now firing signals for the life-boat which went and spoke her.

The lightship reported that so far as she could see the attacked ship had shot down the aeroplane. The life-boat at once went back and searched right down to Black Rock off Carnsore Point, but she could find nothing and returned to her station at 11.30 P.M Rewards, £30 8s..