Excellent ser- vice was performed by the Life-boat on this station on. the 16th August. About five o'clock on the rooming of that day, during a very heavy gale, with a rough sea, the barque Neptunus, of Soon, Norway, drove ashore in Dundrum Bay, twenty- seven hours after she had left Liverpool in ballast for Copenhagen. Her crew had previously been compelled to cut away two of the masts to prevent the vessel from being capsized. The Tyrella Life- boat was got out, and with much difficulty she was launched through the heavy surf.

She then proceeded to the wreck, and was enabled to save the whole of the ship- wrecked crew, 14 in number. The Life- boat, men were reported to have behaved with great spirit and gallantry on the occasion..