MAY 12TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.

At 9 A.M. a message was received from the Kilmichael Point look-out that the S.S. Joffre Rose, of Liverpool, had gone ashore on the mainland south of Pass Head, while bound laden with coal from Port Talbot to Dublin. She had a crew of sixteen. A strong S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat lnbhear Mor was launched at 9.30 A.M., reached the steamer at 10.45 A.M., and went along-side, but the crew declined to leave and the life-boat remained standing by. Meanwhile the coastguard life-saving apparatus on shore had rigged the breeches buoy, but when it fired a line over the steamer, no one of her crew seemed able to rig it, so three lifeboatmen went aboard and did it. The crew, however, remained in the steamer.

The weather moderated and the life-boat returned ashore, after arranging with the captain that if it got worse he should hoist a distress signal. The life-boat reached her station at 4.15 P.M. During the afternoon the receiver of wrecks visited the wreck. He came back, saying that the captain wished the crew to be taken off, and three hours after her return the life-boat put out again. She found that the captain, who had gone ashore by the breeches buoy to telephone to his owners, had sent a message that the crew should stay aboard until he returned, so the life-boat remained standing by until after dark. It was then no longer safe for her to stay, the chief officer of the steamer decided to leave her, and the lifeboat rescued the crew of fifteen and brought them ashore, arriving at 11.30 P.M. Rewards : first service, £5 2s. ; second service, £10 13s.