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Juliana, of Riga

On the 26th November the Life-boat Reigate put off from this station and saved 8 persons which vessel had been driven into the from the barque Juliana, of Eigabay, and the sea, breaking over and filling her as soon as she struck, threatened to wash the crew from the rigging. The same Life-boat was called out on the 20th December, to the aid of the crew of the schooner Swift, of Wexford, which had gone ashore in Dundrum Bay during a gale from the S.E. It was early in the evening when the boat was called out; but the weather became so bad, and the night so intensely dark, that great risk was rim in saving the vessel's crew.

Happily, however, the 5 men were at.

length brought safely to land..