DECEMBER 22ND. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 5.50 in the morning the Tara coastguard telephoned the Cloughey life-boat station that a vessel was ashore between Kearney Point and North Rock. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Herbert John was launched at 6.37 and an hour later found the ex-naval motor vessel 1503, with a crew of five. She was on the rocks in a difficult position, but after several attempts the life-boat was able to go alongside her and rescue her crew. She landed them at 9.30, and one of them died shortly afterwards.

The life-boat put out again at 10.30 to help a tug in an attempt to salve the vessel, but in the rough seas they could do nothing and had to return. The life-boat reached her station at 1.30 that afternoon. The Donaghadee life-boat Civil Service No. 5 launched at 6.15 in the morning, but found that the crew had already been rescued by the Cloughey lifeboat and returned to her station at 11.30.- Rewards : Cloughey, £17 18s., and property salvage case ; Donaghadee, £10 8s. 6d..