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A Rowing Boat (3)

JUNE 2ND. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK.

At about 4.10 P.M. a message came that a rowing boat with two persons on board wasin difficulties in Youghal Bay. The wind was due east and increasing, with a ground swell, and the boat was being carried away by the wind and tide. The motor life-boat Laurana Sarah Blunt was launched at 4.30 P.M. and found the boat about three miles away with two inexperienced boys on board.

She towed them in and returned to her station again at 6 P.M. - Rewards, £5 5s. 6d..