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Guillemot

AUGUST 3lST. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.

At 10 P.M. lamp signals were seen from a position two miles E.S.E. of Small Saltee Island, and the motor life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 11.15 P.M.

A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rather rough sea. The life-boat found that the boat in distress was the fishing boat Guillemot, of Kilmore Quay, with the lifeboat coxswain and two other men on board.

A lobster pot line had fouled her propeller and the men could not get it clear, although one of them had been over the side twice in attempting to remove it. The Guillemot had no oars or sails and the life-boat towed her in, arriving at 11.35 P.M. - Rewards, £18 1s..