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John A. Harvie

CARNSORE, Co. WEXFOBD.—On the night of the 26th November intelligence reached this Life-boat station that a ship was in distress about two miles and a half to the westward of Kilmore, which is twelve miles from Carnsore. Without loss of time the coxswain procured horses, and the Life-boat started on its carriage by land, arriving at Kilmore about 7 o'clock on the following morning. The coxswain, however, thought it would not be desirable to launch the boat there, so he took her to Ballyhealy, where, after some delay, volunteer crew was mustered and the boat launched. All efforts to make the wreck were, however, unsuccessful, principally on account of the very heavy seas and the wreckage floating about in the vicinity. Ultimately the boat returned to the shore, and remained there until the next morning, when her crew manned her and proceeded out. She was then happily the means of saving all on the stranded ship, consisting of the master, mate, fourteen seamen, a boy, and two women. The barque was the John A.

Harvie, of Windsor, N.S., bound from New York to Dublin, with a cargo of Indian corn..