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The S.S. Urania, of Swansea

At 9 A.M. on the 18th January, at which time it was blowing hard from the southward, the s.s. Urania, of Swansea, bound from that port to Newry, went ashore north of this port on the North Bull Bank, and the same Life-boat promptly proceeded to her assistance; but so heavy was the sea around the stranded vessel that several attempts to board failed. The coxswain at last being washed overboard, and saved with difficulty, and another of the crew injured, the boat was finally forced away from thewreck, and into the river, where notwithstanding the exposure which the coxswain, JOHN GABVBT, had been subjected to by twenty minutes' immersion, he succeeded in reorganising his crew, and again proceeded to the Urania, and after some further delay succeeded in removing from her all those on board, consisting of 10 persons; one officer, the mate, had previously been drowned..