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Oriel, of Howth

JUNE 4TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN. At 6.30 in the evening a yacht was seen endeavouring to make Howth, and the keeper of the Baily Lighthouse was asked to keep a watch on her. About nine o’clock he telephoned that the yacht was drifting to sea and appeared to be in distress, and at 9.27 the motor life-boat R.P.L. was launched. A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. At ten o’clock the life-boat found the yacht Oriel, of Howth, with her sails carried away, about five miles eastnorth- east of the Baily Lighthouse. She had three men on board. The life-boat towed her to her moorings and reached her station again at 11.45 that night. - Property salvage case..