JULY 10TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.

At midnight on the 9th July one of the life-boatmen reported to the coxswain that the small boat Fine Gael had notreturned. She had been taken out at about seven in the evening by three boys, none of whom knew much about sailing. The weather was now getting bad, with a rising westerly wind and rain. The motor lifeboat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 12.30 A.M. and searched around the Saltee Islands, but found nothing. As the tide was running east she went in that direction and at 2.40 in the morning picked up the small boat by her searchlight. The boat was then about four miles to the east of the Little Saltee Island and five miles off shore. She took the boat in tow and arrived back at her station again at 3.40 A.M. - Rewards, £24 15s.