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A Ketch

The Coxswain of the Life-boat Brittan Willis was informed at 9 P.M. on the 1st September that a ketch was drifting on to the rocks on the north side of Lough Foyle, at a place called the Warren. He at once assembled the crew, and the Life-boat was promptly launched. On arrival it was found that the vessel was a ketch belonging to Buncranna, bound from Lough Swilly to Londonderry, and that her jib had blown away. As the crew would have been exposed to considerable risk had they remained on board they were taken into the Life-boat which landed them shortly after 11 P.M. The weather was moderate..