DECEMBER 18TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. At 2.10 in the afternoon a telephone message was received from the Bailey Lighthouse, Howth, that Hopper No.

4, a dredging vessel belonging to the Dublin Port and Docks Board, had gone ashore near Sutton. A wind of hurricane force was blowing, with sleet and a confused sea. The motor life-boat Dunleary II was launched at 2.30 and found the Hopper two miles northnorth- east of Poolbeg Lighthouse, returning to Dublin, light, with a crew of eight on board.

The life-boat dropped anchor and veered down to the hopper. Although the hopper was aground, with seas breaking over her stern, the crew did not at first wish to leave, but later they were taken off by the life-boat, which reached Dun Laoghaire again at 4.25.

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