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MARCH 13TH. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 4.45 in the morning the military barracks at Cork reported distress signals seen off Galley Head. It was a fine night, with a slight haze, calm sea, and a light southerly wind. With the second coxswain in command, the motor life-boat Sarah Ward and William David Crosweller was launched at 5.10. About five miles west of Galley Head she found a number of dinghies containing 37 members of the crew of a German submarine, which had sunk eight hours before. The life-boat brought them in and handed them over to the military, who had in charge eleven others who had gone ashore at Galley Head. The life-boat reached her station at 11.55 that morning.- Rewards, £10 17s. 6d..