OCTOBER 20TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD.

At 10.45 A.M. the S.S. Wallace Rose entered the bay flying signals for a boat and stretcher, as she had shipwrecked men on board. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 11 A.M. with customs and police on board, and with the life-boat station secretary, Mr. W. J. B. Moncas, in the crew. A S.W. wind was blowing. She found that the Wallace Rose had rescued eight men from an upturned ship’s boat, and three bodies.

They all belonged to the ex-Norwegian steamer Rusk, which had been sunk by a German aeroplane, while bound, light, from Cork to Newport. Five other members of her crew were reported to have reached Cahir Point in another boat. Two others were unaccounted for. The life-boat brought off one man who was sick and the three bodies, and landed them at 12.30 P.M. Her boarding boat took out provisions to the Wallace Rose, and the steamer then made for Newport, taking with her the other seven rescued men. - Partly paid permanent crew. Rewards, £2 2s. 6d..