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A Curragh

AUG. 1ST. - GALWAY BAY, GALWAY.

At 6 P.M. a message was received from Inishere that a Connemara boatman had reported that he had passed an upturned curragh half a mile north of Sandhead. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat K.E.C.F.

was launched at 6.30 P.M. She found the curragh, took it in tow, and made a wide search for the three men believed to have been on board, but could not find them she returned to her station at 8P.M. - Rewards, £5 14s..