Fria
On the afternoon of the 25th March the schooner Fria, of Thisted, was observed at anchor in a disabled condition two miles from Drogheda Bar. A strong easterly gale was blowing, and the Lifeboat's crew found it impossible to force the boat out of the river that night, .but on the morning of the 26th the No. 1 Lifeboat, the Old George Irlam of 'Liverpool, made her way out and succeeded in boarding the distressed vessel, weighed her anchor, and assisted a tug-boat which also arrived to carry her into the Boyne river. The Fria carried a crew of 7 hands, all told..