JANUARY 15TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.

CORK. At 11.35 at night the Ballycotton look-out post reported a large flare seen three miles south-east of Ballycotton Lighthouse.

A fresh north-east wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The night was dark and cold.

Several of the life-boatmen were away herring fishing, but volunteers, including a sergeant of the civic guard, made up a full crew and the motor life-boat Mary Stanford was launched at 12.10 in the morning and found the motor drifter Pride of Rosslare, of Dunmore East, drifting, with her engine broken down. Her crew, however, succeeded in repairing the engine, and the drifter came in under her own power, escorted by the life-boat. They arrived at 1.40. - Rewards, £11 17s..