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Jane and Andromeda

DUNDALK.—At 3 P.M. on the 16th April, during a strong gale at S.E., the Jane, of Whitehaven, and the Andromeda, of London, both schooners laden with coal, drove ashore on the Dundalk bar. The Lifeboat Stockport Sunday School was launched and proceeded to render assistance, and succeeded in rescuing from the two vessels 11 persons, including the wife and daughter of the master of the Andromeda. The vessels both became total wrecks and went to pieces. The master of the Andromeda, in hopes his vessel would hold together, refused to leave in the Life-boat, and was saved with difficulty by the Coastguard, before the wreck went to pieces, as the Life-boat was about to return for him..