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Jewess

CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—A messenger arrived at this Life-boat Station from Morris Castle, distant abont three Irish miles south, on the evening of the 17th May, and reported that a vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank. The Life-boat John Brooke was launched at 8.30 in a strong N.E. breeze, proceeded in the direction indicated, and found that the vessel bad floated off the bank and had grounded on the Bam Shoal. The seas were breaking over her, and also over the Life-boat whilst she rescued the crew, consisting of five men. She was the Jewess, of and for Wexford bound for Dublin, with a cargo of malt..