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A Yacht Little Dorrit

The Life- \ boat Civil Service, on the Wexford No. 2 sta- tion, did good service on the 13th May, by saving the crew of 2 men from the yacht Little Dorrit, of Weymouth, which, during a strong gale from the N.N.E., became a total wreck on the Dogger Bank. The seas were running mountains high, at the time, the boat being repeatedly filled; and it was not without a great amount of exertion and peril that the poor fellows were saved from the weather-rigging of the wreck, which had sunk on its beam ends on the Sand, and which entirely dis- appeared half an hour after the rescue had been accomplished. ,.