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JANUARY 26TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.5 A.M.

the coast watching station at Greenore Point reported a vessel  in distress two and a half miles N.E. of Greenore. A moderate S.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Mabel Marion. Thompson was launched at 8.30 A.M., and found the steam trawler Loddon, of Lowestoft, with a crew of nine. She had been holed by a submerged wreck, and the lifeboat stood by until her skipper had safely beached the trawler. The life-boat then took off the skipper and returned to her station at 12.30 P.M. On the following day the weather had got worse and the life-boat put out again at 2.5 P.M., rescued the remaining eight members of the crew, and landed them at 3.45 P.M. - Property salvage case.