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Lass o' Doon

On the 5th December, at 3 A.M., the schooner Lass o' Doon, of Montrose, bound from Sunderland to Montrose, got ashore" on the Annat Bank, off this port, in a snowstorm, the wind being at S.S.E. with considerable sea on.

The Life-boat Roman Governor of Caer Hun, being launched, succeeded in rescu- ! ing the crew of 5 men, who were landed soon after 4 in the morning. Later in the day the same boat had again to be launched, and brought ashore 30 men from the same vessel, they having been employed to endeavour to save the vessel, : but being obliged to desist from the in- | creasing foul weather, and having no ; mpde of escape from the stranded vessel j but by the Life-boat..