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Gipsy

YOUGHAL, Co. CORK.—The ketch Gipsy, of Youghal, returning from Cork, with no cargo or ballast, on the 25th March, found that with a strong head wind and an ebb tide she could not enter the harbour; she therefore ran for shelter under Blackball Head and anchored. The wind increased to a strong gale accompanied by a rough si a, and towards night, finding her anchor dragging, she slipped her cable at high water about 7 P.M., and headed for the harbour entrance, but being light she became unmanageable, and was driven ashore about a mile and a half S.W. of the harbour. A heavy sea was breaking round her, but as the tide was falling, those on board were in no immediate danger, and as in all probability they would be able to get her off with the morning's tide, it was considered unnecessary to send the Life-boat to; theirassistance. At 4.30 A.M., however, the weather having become more boisterous, the Life-boat Mary Luckombe was launched and rescued the crew consisting of three men..