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The S.S. Rosehill

NOVEMBER 9TH. - POOLBEG, CO DUBLIN. At about 12.15 P.M. information was received from the skipper of a tug that the S.S. Rosehill, of Cardiff, outward bound in ballast for Cardiff, had run aground on a sandbank N.W. of the Bull Lighthouse.

A whole S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Helen Blake was launched at 12.45 P.M., and stood by the steamer until 2.15 P.M., when a tug refloated her and towed her into port. The life-boat got back to her  station at 2.30 PM .Rewards, £6 9s. 6d..