The yacht Emetic, of Dunmore East, County Waterford, while on a cruise to Cork from that port, was compelled by stress of weather to put into Dungarvan on the 27th September.

On the following day it blew a strong gale from the S.W., and the yacht dragged her anchors and drifted towards the shore at Ballinacourty, when she hoisted a signal of distress. With much promptitude the life- boat Christopher Ludlow was launched, and 4 of her crew boarded the vessel, got sail on her, and, with some difficulty, brought her and the 3 persons on board safely to Dungarvan, the life-boat, with the remainder of her crew in her, following astern..