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George and Valentine and Noach I.

RAMSGATE.—On the 12th November, signals were shown by vessels ashore in Pegwell Bay. The Life-boat which had been temporarily placed on this station in lien of the Bradford, which had been rendered unfit for further service by collision on the 6th inst., was manned and went off in tow of the harbour steam-tug Aid, first to a stranded barque, but their assistance was declined; they then went to two other stranded vessels, but found that other boats were assisting them. They then made for a schooner ashore sunk on the Main. On arriving abreast of her the Life-boat was slipped from the tug, sailed alongside and took off the crew of 5 men, and then returned to the tug and put the rescued men on board her. The vessel was the schooner George and Valentine, of and from Dunkirk, to Cherbourg, with a cargo of coal. The tug then returned to the harbour and landed the men, and the Life-boat proceeded to the barque first spoken, and with the assistance of the tug which came alongside the vessel on the tide flowing, the barque, which proved to be the Noach I., of and from Rotterdam , to Batavia, with a general cargo, was taken into Eainsgate harbour. She. carried a crew of 20 men..