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Ann, of Inverness

The schooner Ann, of Inverness, was approaching the Har- bour of Arbroath, on the evening of the 24th August, it then being an hour past high-water, and the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.W., when she struck on the rocks, about 400 yards from the Pier-head ; she remained fast there, and a very heavy cross-sea beat heavily over her.The Dundee People's Journal Life-boat was at once got afloat, bravely taken through the high seas, and succeeded, before the vessel sank, in rescuing the crew of 5 men, and the pilot, who belonged to the port..