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Bridget, of Dungarvan

DUNGARVAN.—At 3 P.M. on the 2nd August, the Life-boat Christopher Ludlow was launched from this station, and, after an hour and a half of hard rowing, the crew succeeded in boarding the brigantine Bridget, of Dungarvan, which vessel while on a voyage from Swansea to Bonmahon had been disabled aloft, and forced to come to an anchor in a dangerous position on a lee shore, a mile east of the Carrick Pans. It was blowing a gale from the S. with a heavy cross sea. Before dark the Life-boat had succeeded in landing all on board, consisting of 7 in the crew, and one passenger..