MARCH 16TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 10. 40 P .M. n e w s was received from the civic guard at Carne that a vessel was in distress off Carne Pier.

At 11.10 P.M. the motor life-boat B.A.S.P., on temporary duty at the station, was launched. The weather was calm, but foggy.

The life-boat found the steam trawler Thomas Booth, of Milford. She had stranded on the Wilkeen Rocks, and her crew of eleven had abandoned her and had landed at Carne Pier.

The life-boat went close to the pier, and some of the trawler’s crew came out to her in a small boat. She put them aboard the trawler again, and then fetched the remainder from the shore. She stood by and then took them off again and landed them at Rosslare Harbour at 3.55 A.M. - Partly paid permanent crew. - Rewards, £6 1s. 6d.