APRIL 29TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.

At 5.45 in the evening a message was received from the Bailey Lighthouse that a boat had capsized between Poolbeg Light and Dun Laoghaire harbour. A strong and squally north-north-west wind was blowing and the sea was rough. At six o’clock the motor life-boat R.P.L. was launched and found a rowing boat with five men and a boy on board, a mile and a half west-south-west of Bailey Lighthouse, flying a distress signal. The party had anchored to fish, but the boat had dragged her anchor. Then they had broken an oar. The boat had drifted out to sea, and was now water-logged. The life-boat took the men and boy on board, and with their boat in tow returned to Howth. There she was told that another boat was in distress in Dublin Bay. She put to sea again at 7.50 and searched the bay, but met the Poolbeg life-boat, which told her that she had picked up a sailing dinghy, and that its crew of two men had been lost. The Howth life-boat returned to her station at 10.15 that night.- Rewards, £9..