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The Eighty-Ton Three-Masted Schooner Happy Harry, of Dublin

SEPTEMBER 29TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK, AND HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At four in the afternoon the Ardmore civic guards reported that a schooner, travelling west under sail, seemed to be on fire aft. A strong south-east wind was blowing, with a big ground swell. The Youghal motor life-boat Laurana Sarah Blunt was launched at 4.15 and found the schooner in the middle of Whiting Bay. She was the eighty-ton three-masted schooner Happy Harry, of Dublin, laden with salt. She had a crew of five. They had got the fire under control, but as the schooner was drifting towards rocks, the life-boat passed a line on board. It parted. It was secured again and the life-boat towed the schooner out of danger. The schooner then made for Youghal with the life-boat in attendance, and they arrived at 7.15 that evening. The information was also given by the guards to the Helvick Head life-boat station and the motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at four o’clock. She came up to the schooner just as she was entering Youghal harbour, and returned to her station, arriving at 8.20.- Rewards: Helvick Head, £94s .6d.; Youghal, no expense to the Institution.