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Six Small Sailing Boats

AUGUST 28TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. At nine in the morning a messenger came by car to the lifeboat station and reported that six small sailing boats had been washed away from Kilbrittain during a storm, and it was thought that a boy was aboard one of them. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Sarah Ward and William David Crosweller was launched at 9.30 and half an hour later found one boat empty, and wreckage of all the others, some four miles to the south. With the one boat in tow the life-boat reached her station again at eleven o’clock. The boy was not aboard his boat, but had walked round the coast in the hope that it would be washed ashore.- The owners of the boats rewarded the lifeboatmen for their services..