APRIL 14TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 12.50 in the morning word was brought to the lifeboat coxswain that a vessel was in distress.

A south-east gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 1.15 the motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched and found the trawler Golden Lily, of Swansea, ashore on the rocks on the east side of Straw Island. She was being pounded on the rocks and there was no chance of escape for her crew of six. But for the arrival of the life-boat they would have lost their lives. The life-boat got a line aboard the Golden Lily, pulled her off the rocks and towed her to Kilronan Pier. She arrived back at her station at 4.30 next morning. - Property salvage case..