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A Fishing Smack

At 11.30 P.M. on the 16th November, "flare-up" signals on the Scroby Sand being observed from the Life-boat Station, the No. 2 Life-boat was launched, and an fishing smack aground, surrounded by the reaching the edge of the shoal observed a breakers. The crew were in the act of making a desperate attempt to escape iu their own boat when the Life-boat was observed, and her services gladly accepted the tide rose, whes the sea beat the smack over into deep water. The Life-boatmen Having rescued the crew, consisting of 6 men, the Life-boat lay off the sand till then boarded the smack again, and, though she was leaking badly and waterlogged, succeeded in bringing her into Yarmouth Harbour by 1 P.M. on the 17th. The wind was moderate during the night, but there was a considerable swell, resulting from a previous gale..