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Vision, of Drogheda

During a heavy gale from the S.W. on the 4th December, the intelligence was received at Castletown that the schooner Vision, of Drogheda, had struck on a reef of rocks near Strand Hall, about two and a half miles from Castletovvn. The crew of the Commercial Travellers' life-boat were quickly mustered, and within fifteen minutes of the information being received, she was on her carriage being transported along the beach to the scene of the wreck. In thirty minutes from the time of starting the life- boat was launched through the raging surf in the most gallant style, and amidst the cheers of hundreds of spectators, soon reached the wreck, from which she took off the crew of 5 hands. The life-boat then proceeded to Port St. Mary, where she safely landed the shipwrecked men..