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Andover

GILES' QUAY (DUNDALK), Co. LOUTH.

—At about 11 o'clock on the same morning (9th February), the brigantine Andover, of Dublin, which had lost her mainsail and had become unmanageable, stranded about one mile from Dundalk Lighthouse, during rough weather, and showed signals of distress. The Giles' Quay Life-boat proceeded to her, took off the crew of 6 men, and landed them at Dundalk Quay. The wind was then blowing strongly from the E., and the sea running high; the Life-boat therefore remained at Dundalk until 'the weather moderated. While on her way back to her station, on the following morning, she was asked to try to tow the Andover off the bank. The Life-boat crew rendered the required assistance, and succeeded, with the aid of another boat's crew, in getting her afloat. The coxswain of the Life-boat, who is a pilot, then took charge of the vessel, signalled for a tug, and had her towed up to the Quay. She was on a voyage from Limerick to Liverpool, with a cargo of bones..