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Mountain Hare

WEXFORD.—On the 22nd January, at 9.30 P.M., whilst blowing hard from the S.W., cries for assistance were heard from a vessel in distress on the north end of the Dogger Bank; information of which being conveyed to the Life-boat Station at Rosslare, the Civil Service was promptly launched, and proceeded to the bank, where she found the fishing-smack Mountain Hare, of Wexford, on her beam-ends, and full of water, the crew with difficulty clinging on to the rigging. The Life-boat wAs successful in rescuing the whole crew, 6 in number..