DECEMBER 18TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.

At about 2.15 in the afternoon the Bailey Lighthouse reported that the Dublin Port and Docks Board Hopper No. 17 was adrift, bearing north-west from the lighthouse.

A strong west-south-west wind was blowing, with a heavy sea and rain squalls. Another hopper was aground at Sutton, but the Dun Laoghaire life-boat went to her help. The motor life-boat R.P.L. was launched at 2.55 andfound the hopper at anchor leeward of Tower on Ireland’s Eye. She took a message from the hopper to a tug, and stood by ready to pass a tow rope, but the tug fixed the tow without help and towed the hopper to Dublin.

The life-boat reached her station again at 5.25. - Rewards, £11 17s..