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A Rowing Punt

FEBRUARY 28TH . - POOLBEG , CO .DUBLIN. At 5.30 P.M. a resident of Ringsend reported that a small open boat was adrift in the fairway of the River Liffey, east of Pigeon House Fort. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and an ebbing tide. The motor life-boat Helen Blake was launched at 5.50 P.M. and found a boy in a sixteen-foot rowing punt. Both boy and boat were brought in by the life-boat, which returned to her station at 7.45 P.M.- Rewards, £10 2s.