PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPES FROM DROWNING.
Three young men, from the parish of Annadown, named Lydon, who had been at our market for the purpose of purchasing seaweed, were returning in their boat on Tuesday morning last, and when near the ferry of Knock, a sudden squall came off the land, which had the effect of upsetting the boat, and throwing the men into the water. Fortunately, however, they contrived to cling to the keel of the boat, where they remained for some time until assistance was procured, and they were thus rescued from the imminent danger to which they had been exposed.
Through another merciful interposition of Providence, the lives of several human beings were saved on the night of Thursday last. It appears that, between twelve and one o'clock, that very efficient watchman at the Dock-gate, McCabe, heard a cry of distress from the direction of Renmore Point, and, thereupon, having given the alarm, he was joined by Finerty, a man employed on extra duty by the Coast Guard service, and two others, Salmon and Ward, of that force. They at once broke a boat from her moorings, in which they proceeded to the place where they heard the noise, and on coming up, they found a boat belonging to the Widow King, of Claddagh, which was laden with seaweed, thrown upon a rock. The crew, consisting of three man named Conneely, and Bartly King, the son of the owner, were pitched into the water, and a poor woman from Arran, who appeared to be in the last stage of exhaustion, was under the dock when the party arrived to her assistance, but for which she must have perished, as the boat was fast filling with water. This is the second time McCabe was instrumental, under Providence, in saving the life of a fellow creature, and we trust his exertions will not go unrewarded.
Galway Mercury, and Connaught Weekly Advertiser, 28 June 1845.
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