JANUARY 30TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the morning the coastwatchers at Brownstown Head telephoned the civic guard that a raft had been seen with three men on it. The information was passed to the life-boat station, and the motor life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched at 10.20 A.M. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing, with a very rough sea. The life-boat found the raft three hundred yards from the shore on the west side of Tramore Bay. The three men had been without food or drink for four days, and were almost helpless with exhaustion. At considerable risk, D. Murphy, the bowman, jumped on to the raft to help the men into the life-boat, and they were landed at 1.30 P.M. They were survivors of the S.S. Beemsterdijk, of Rotterdam, a vessel of several thousand tons, which had been mined. The St. David’s, Pembrokeshire, life-boat had gone out to the help of the same steamer on 26th January.- Rewards, £9 14s. 6d.

(See “Accounts of Services by Life-boats,” St. Davids, page 24.).