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Guillemot

OCTOBER 8TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.

The local motor fishing boat Guillemot put to sea at seven in the morning.

She did not return, and at 7.15 in the evening flares were seen in the direction of Blackrock.

A fresh south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat station was told at 7.30 and at eight o’clock the motor life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched.

She found the Guillemot off the Barrels Rock.

Her engine had broken down and she was using her nets as a sea anchor. The life-boat towed her to harbour, and reached her station again at one o’clock next morning.

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