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Brunette

AUGUST 10TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. Shortly after 3 P .M. a s m a l l yacht about three miles east of the harbour was seen trying to beat into harbour against westerly gale and a rough sea. She was kept in view by the life-boat coxswain, and when he saw that she was not making headway, but was being blown out to sea, he called out the crew, and at 4.10 P.M. the motor life-boat Dunleary II was launched. She found the yacht Brunette of Dun Laoghaire, with two men and three children aboard.

She had lost her rudder and damaged her mainsail, and she was then about two miles north-east of the Muglins Rock. The lifeboat towed her in, arriving at 5.45 P.M.- Rewards, £4 13s. 6d..