MAY 9 T H . - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. The S.S. Tartar, of Sligo, had stopped off Dunmore for examination.

She had not dropped anchor, but drifted to the S.W. round the headland. She was kept under observation, and was seen to anchor and then to fly a distress signal. At 7.20 P.M. the motor life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched. A fresh easterly wind was blowing, with a slight sea. The life-boat found the steamer about one hundred yards off shore and in danger of going aground if the wind shifted to the south. The life-boat stood by, and some of her crew boarded the Tartar. The steamer was being brought from Dublin to Waterford by the head of the Dublin Navigation School and seven students from the school, but owing to bad coal the steam pressure had dropped. The anchor had been let go, but it jammed, and the steamer had drifted into danger before it could be cleared. By feeding the furnaces with wood from the superstructure and fittings the crew of the life-boat raised steam and the steamer came into Dunmore Harbour under her own power, escorted by the lifeboat.

The life-boat returned to her station at 9.30 P.M. - Rewards, £8 13s..