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The S.S. Saint Kenneth

JANUARY 20TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. While bound for Dublin laden with coal the S.S. Saint Kenneth. of Dublin. sprang a leak. but succeeded in reaching Dun Laoghaire Harbour on the night of the 19th January. While she was being beached she nearly ran down the motor life-boat Dunleary II at her moorings and the life-boatmen had to move the Dunleary II to a safer position. The steamer was made secure, but at 5.15 A.M. next morning the harbour master asked for the life-boat’s help to get the crew of eleven off the steamer as she had partly refloated at high water, had parted her ropes and was being carried nearer the shore. A whole easterly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and driving sleet, and it was found to be too rough for the crew to go out to the life-boat at her moorings in the boarding boat. Instead they got a line to the steamer from the shore, and rigged tackle by which they were able to haul her boat to the shore and back again several times, until the whole of the steamer’s crew of eleven had been rescued by 7.45 A.M. - Rewards, £16 18s..