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At 8 o'clock on the morning of October 19th intelligence reached the station of a vessel being on the north end of the Arklow Bank. It was then blowing a moderate gale from the S.E. with very high sea. The Life-boat Out-Pensioner was launched, and proceeded to the stranded vessel forthwith. Just as the boat got close to her, however, the distressed vessel, which had been on the bank the greater part of the night, drove off it with the flood-tide, and the Life- boat, at the request of the captain, giving two men to pilot her into Wicklow, made for the shore again, where she was beached at 2.25 P.M. The vessel that experienced this narrow escape was the schooner Sen- sitive, of Boulogne, bound from that port to Wicklow, having a crew of 6 men..