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Dayspring

DUNCANNON, WATEHFORD HARBOUR.— On the 3rd March, at about 1.15 P.M., a vessel was seen to be striking heavily on the Bar. The Life-boat Richard and Ann Warner was got out, but owing to the state of the tide, and to the wind being in a S.S.E. direction, it was impossible to get down to the vessel until the arrival from Waterford of the steam-tug Resolute, which took the Boat in tow. The Lifeboat then succeeded in picking up the master of the vessel in an exhausted condition off a piece of wreckage, but unfortunately, owing to the vessel breaking up,the remaining five lives were lost. She was the brigantine Dayspring, of Dublin, bound from Newcastle to Waterford with coals..