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A Schooner The Prospect, of Berwick on Tweed

On the 1st Jtntnays 1861, another dchot«er, th* Prospeet, of Berwick-on- f weed, laden with colds; wifll ft crew of Sii Sse'fi, wta observed at anfeiof & the' Cio^uet Roads, apparently in a sinking state* and close to the broken water on the Fan bread Rocks, her crew being in her long-boat, fast to her stem. Tie Hanxley life-boat was quickly Umncfaed through a high *trrf,«md succeeded in taking ttf«K oh board, arid landing them in safety, which could not Have been ef- fected in their owfi boat. MtDDLEtCu H.

pAirts Esq., and Captain HIPPLEWHITE, harbour master at Amble, members of the local committee of management, went off in the life-boat.