A ship was ob- served in distress on the Long Bank, during a southerly gale, on the 25th November.

The St. Patrick life-boat went off to her, and found she was abandoned. Afterwards she floated off the sands, but capsized as she was about to be boarded by the life-boat men. However, the steam-tug Ruby, of Wexford, coming to their assistance, they were enabled to tow the wreck into the South Bay at Wexford. It proved to be the barque Mauda, of Liverpool, bound to that port from Lagos with a valuable cargo of palm oil, &c.