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Maid of Kent and Dragon

SWANAGE.—On the 30th of September the Life-boat Charlotte Mary was launched, and brought ashore the crews—7 men in all—from the schooner Maid of Kent and the yacht Dragon, which vessels were in very dangerous positions during a heavy gale from S.E. On the weather moderating a little, and the wind veering more to the southward, the Life-boat again put off, and some of the crew succeeded, with great difficulty, in taking the Maid of Kent into Poole Harbour..