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The Swan, of Skibbereen

JUNE 8TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.

The reserve motor life-boat City of Bradford was being taken by a Ballycotton crew from Ballycotton to Baltimore, when about 2.30 in the afternoon she saw a fishing boat two miles west-by-south of Gulley Head with her crew waving for help. A fresh west-southwesterly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat went to her help. She was the Swan, of Skibbereen. Her engine had broken down and she was unable to make port under sail. The life-boat towed her to Castletownsend, where she arrived at 4.30 and then went on to Baltimore, arriving then at six o’clock. - Rewards, £2 10s..