The schooner Handy, of Wexford, bound from Ayr for that port with coals, struck on the Black- water Bank on the evening of the 10th January, during a thick fog, and sprung a leak, when she made for the shore at Cahore, where she subsequently stranded.

The crew of 5 men were saved by the Sir George Bowles Life-boat, stationed at Cahore, the water by that time being over the cabin floor. A shore yawl had gone out to her, but the sea was so very heavy that she was not able to approach near enough to take the men off..