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Saucey Jake

On the evening of the 23rd October, the Life-boat Abraham Thomas was launched, through a heavy surf, to the rescue of the crew of the schooner Saucy Jack, of Yarmouth, which vessel parted from her anchors, from, the violence of the south-east gale, and drove ashore on Yarmouth beach. She carried a crew of 4 men, who were safely landed, 3 by the Life-boat, and 1 by the rocket apparatus, the vessel herself becoming a total wreck. She was bound from Yar- mouth to Newcastle,.