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Dark Night

On the morning of the 18th September the coxswain saw the fishing boat Dark Night, of Barrow, run ashore on the south end of Foulney Island. She was kept under observation and as she appeared to be in danger of foundering, the motor life-boat N.T. was launched to her help at 1.30 P.M. A moderate and increasing W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The Dark Night had driven ashore when her crew of two were getting in the nets, and was being badly battered by the seas. The men themselves were exhausted. The life-boat towed the fishing boat clear, and took her into harbour, returning to her station at 4 P.M.—Rewards, £5 11s..