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POOLBEG, Co. DUBLIN.—The smack Dispatch, of Bullock, an out port of Dublin, bound from Bullock to Dublin with granite stones, being in danger during a whole gale from the N.W., violent hail storms and a heavy sea, on the 30th of March, the Aaron Stark Byrnes Life-boat was launched to her assistance, at 10.45 A.M. The vessel had carried away her standing rigging, was half-full of water, and altogether unmanageable, and her crew of two men were in a very exhausted condition.

They were taken into the Life-boat and brought safely ashore. The smack sunk on the North Bull, inside Dublin Bar, and became a total wreck..