SEPTEMBER 22ND and 23RD. - GALWAY BAY. At 10.30 at night on the 21st, a strong gale blew up and ten steam trawlers, at anchor in Kilronan Bay, dragged their anchors.

Two went on the rocks, one mile south-south-east of the life-boat station, and at 12.20 in the morning of the 22nd made distress signals. The gale was blowing from the north-west, with a rough sea. At 12.35 the motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched.

She found the trawler Trumpeter, of Milford Haven, on a reef, with seas washing right over her. With great difficulty she rescued her crew of twelve. The life-boat then made for the other trawler, the Ilfracombe, also of Milford Haven, and rescued her crew of thirteen. She landed both crews and reached her station again at 2.45 that morning. At 4.45, in moderating weather, at the request of the Trumpeter’s skipper, she took him and four of his crew out to the trawler again, but another trawler was found to have taken charge of the Trumpeter and the life-boat brought the five men back at six o’clock.

At 9.45 another trawler sent a small boat ashore with the message that she had picked up a wireless report from the Ilfracombe that her skipper and seven members of the crew had re-boarded her in a shore-boat, and were in difficulties as she had filled with water and was now listing dangerously. The lifeboat again put out at 9.55, took off the eight men, and landed them. She arrived back at her station at 11.15. At 5.30 in the afternoon of the 23rd she put out in a rough sea, at the request of the skipper of the Ilfracombe, to try to refloat the trawler, but she failed and arrived back at her station at nine that night. - Rewards : first service, £10 9s. ; second service, £10 9s . ; third service, £4 12s. ; fourth service, property salvage case..