JANUARY 4TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.

DOWN. At 8.10 in the morning the Bangor coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Wilson Point, Belfast Lough. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 left her moorings at 8.45, reached the position within an hour, and found the Dutch motor vessel Oregon I ashore on the rocks close inshore.

She had a crew of forty-two. They would not leave her, and she was being carried farther inshore. The life-boat stood by. When the steamer had been carried in so far that her crew would be able to get ashore without much difficulty, her captain said that the life-boat would no longer be needed and she returned to her station, arriving at 11.30 that morning. Later it was learned that the steamer had broken her back, and that her crew had got ashore.

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