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The Irish Steamer Kerrymore

NOVEMBER 21ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 12.55 in the morning the watchman reported rockets and flares from a ship between South Shear Buoy and Tuskar, and at 1.5 the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. One and a half miles S.E. of the South Shear Buoy the life-boat found the Irish steamer Kerrymore. Her steering gear had broken down, and she was labouring heavily in the seas. The life-boat stood by her untilthe weather improved and then returned to harbour at 3.15 A.M. She had told the steamer to signal by morse if she needed help, but at 8 A.M. the steamer went on her way. - Partly paid permanent crew.

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