OCTOBER 11TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.

During the morning, while several fishing boats were out, a strong wind sprang up, and by 12.30 in the afternoon it was blowing a gale from the north, with squalls, a rough sea, and heavy rain. Some boats returned and the fourth, which arrived in about 2.20, reported two boats in difficulties.

They were the motor fishing boats St. Anne and Cymba, both of Kilmore Quay, and each with a crew of two. They had shipped water which had stopped their engines, and their sails had been blown away. The motor lifeboat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 2.40. She went first to the St. Anne, which was near the rocks off The Ring at the west end of the Great Saltee Island, towed her clear and took on board her two men, now exhausted. Leaving the empty St. Anne the life-boat went to the Cymba. She was dragging her anchor about four miles off shore, west of the Great Saltee Island, but her crew were in better shape. Taking her in tow, the life-boat collected the St. Anne and returned to her station, arriving at 5.40. An increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was made to each member of the crew and to the helpers. - Standard rewards, £30 16s. 6d. ; additional rewards, £12 15s. ; total rewards, £43 11s. 6d.