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Maria McMillan

DUNGARVAN,1 CO. WATERFORD.—While a moderate breeze was blowing from the S.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the 5th April, a vessel was seen burning flares, and on this being reported at the Life-boat station immediate steps were taken to summon the crew. At 8.20 P.M. the Life-boat William Dnnnlle was launched and rescued the crew of four men from the schooner Maria McMillan, of and for Dnngarvan, with a cargo of coal from Milford. She had stranded on the northern end of Whitehouse Bank, and the seas' were washing completely over her..