"While a whole gale was blowing from S.W. on the 28th March, signals of distress were shown by the brigantine Maxim, of and from Drogheda for Liverpool, in ballast, which had stranded about three hundred yards south of the harbour. She had lost her anchors and chains and her sails had been blown away. Her crew of four men were taken into the Life-boat and landed at the Queen's pier..