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Gustava

BALLYCOTTON, IRELAND. — At about 5 P.M. on the 21st October, the barque Gustava,, of Laurvig, Norway, bound from Cardiff to the Baltic via Cork, with coal, was seen standing in for Ballycotton Sound. A pilot went off to her in a whaleboat, guided her through the Sound, and brought her to an anchor. The master and crew remained on board, but the wind and sea increasing, they showed signals of distress, in reply to which the Oliver Goldsmith Life-boat put off to her and brought her crew of eleven men ashore..