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Wave

SIDMOUTH.—At about 1 P.M. on the 7th August, the schooner Wave, of Guernsey, being at anchor in a dangerous position off this station, it blowing a gale from S., hoisted a signal of distress, and the Life-boat Rimington was launched, and proceeding off against a heavy sea, succeeded in rescuing from the distressed vessel the whole of the crew, 6 in number..