On
Friday a sad drowning occurred at the Grand Canal Basin. The victim was Daniel Dent, aged 24 years, a
sailor on board the yacht Avoset, owned by Captain Brindley Hone, of the Royal
Irish Yacht Club. It appears that the
Avoset was lying in the Basin, and between 3 and 4 p.m. Dent and another man
named Daniel Clarke were pushing off from the yacht in a punt for the purpose
of proceeding to Ringsend, when the punt capsized and the two men were thrown
into the water. Clarke swam towards the
yacht Prima Donna and shouted for assistance.
Captain Thomas Purcell of the Prima Donna jumped into a punt which was
lying alongside, and took Clarke out of the water. They then rowed towards Dent, who was holding on to the bottom of
the capsized punt; but as they approached Dent let go his hold, sank, and did
not rise again. The body was recovered
with grappling irons in about nineteen or twenty minutes afterwards and
conveyed on a dray to Sir Patrick Dun’s hospital, where Dr. Ball pronounced
life extinct. The deceased, who resided
at 17 Cambridge St., Ringsend, leaves a widow to mourn his loss.
Sir Patrick Dun’s