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Giles Lang

FENIT (TRALEE BAY).—On the evening of the 24th April the schooner Giles Lang, of St. Ives, bound from Galway for Cardiff, laden with hay, which had put into Fenit from stress of weather, dragged her anchor and sent up signals of distress; she ultimately stranded about a mile east of the pier. A whole gale of wind was blowing from the S.W., the sea was very heavy, the weather thick, and rain was falling. The Life-boat Louisa and Emma put off to her, and found that the master and crew had got into their own boat, which was hanging on to the stern of the vessel. They were taken into the Life-boat, but the captain jumped into his own boat again and drifted ashore; the crew, four in number, were landed by the Life-boat..