DECEMBER 8TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 5.45 A.M. a message was received from the military lookout post at Greenore Point that rockets and flares had been seen, and at 6.35 A.M. the motor lift-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. A light S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The life-boat saw the SOS signal being flashed, made for it, and, when two miles S. by E. of Haugh Buoy found a ship’s boat with eleven men on board. They were the crew of the steamer Gertie, of Liverpool, which had struck a mine and sank near the Tuskar Rock, and they had flashed the signal with an electric torch.

The life-boat rescued the eleven men and took their boat in tow. The men were uninjured, but very wet and cold, and they were given rum. The life-boat landed them at Rosslare pier, and returned to her station at 8.10 A.M. - Partly paid permanent crew.

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