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Samanco

CARNSORE, IRELAND.—On the morning of the 14th December, a mounted messenger arrived at the Life-boat station, stating that the services of the boat were required by a vessel on the Carrick Rocks, Greenore Point. The Life-boat Isis was accordingly launched at 9 o'clock, and proceeded to the vessel, which was found to be the barque Samanco, of and from Liverpool, bound for Callao with a cargo of coal.

Nine of her crew had landed in their own boat, and the remaining nine men were taken into the Life-boat, and brought safely ashore..