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Gleaner, of Milford

On the 30th October, at 3 P.M., the schooner Gleaner, of Milford, •was "wrecked beneath Clay Castle, near the entrance of Youghal Harbour. It was blowing a heavy gale at S. The Life-boat William Beckett of Leeds was launched at 3.45, and succeeded in reaching the wreck, which, to the great disappointment of the Life-boat's crew, they found de- serted; the crew having taken to their own boat, which was almost immediately capsized, and all perished..