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Ivy P.

Wicklow.—On the evening of the 13th December signals of distress were seen coming from the ketch Ivy P. of Dublin, which was lying at anchor about two miles E.N.E. of Wicklow harbour. A strong S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and heavy rain. The motor life-boat Robert Theophilus Garden was launched at 5.30 P.M. She found that the Ivy P., bound from Courtown to Liverpool, was leaking badly and in danger of foundering. Her crew of four were exhausted. The life-boat rescued them and arrived back in harbour at 7.30 P.M. The life-boat crew stood by all night, waiting for a chance to save the ketch. At 3.30 A.M. on the 14th she went out again. Some of the lifeboat crew and the crew of the ketch were put on board the ketch to lift her anchor and man the pumps, and the life-boat towed her into harbour at 5.30 a.M.—Rewards, £17 17s. 6d. ; Property Salvage Case..