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The Fishing Steamers Salamander and Queenborough

FENIT (TRALEE BAY), Co. K«BBY.—The Life-boat John Willmot was launched at 1 P.M. on the 19th April and proceeded to the fishing steamer Salamander which had stranded on a dangerous reef of rocks in Brandon Bay in a dense fog.

The Life-boat wai towed by the steamer Queenborough, a sister ship of the Salamander, and on reaching the latter found that seven of her crew had jumped overboard and had been washed ashore at Garry William Point. They were taken into the Life-boat and landed at Fenit.

One of the men had been much injured in an unsuccessful endeavour to rescue the -mate, who was washed overboard directly after the vessel struck. The steamer became a total wreck..