On the 22nd March, during a fresh gale, the ship Conway Castle, of Liverpool, was stranded on the north end of the Blackwater Bank. The Wexford and Cahore life-boats, the St.

Patrick and the Sir George Bowles, put off, boarded the vessel, and assisted the crew to throw overboard some of the cargo. Some steam-tugs also put off to her assistance, and she was ultimately got off the bank..