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Fearless

WINCHELSEA.—On the 28th January, at about 12.45 P.M., signals of distress were observed to be shown from a vessel opposite No. 31 Tower. The wind was blowing from the S.S.W., accompanied by thick rain, and a heavy sea was breaking at the time. The Winchelsea Life-boat Storm Sprite put off, and succeeded in saving the crew, consisting of 6 men, from the vessel, which proved to be the schooner Fearless, of Guernsey, bound thence to London with a cargo of stone. All her sails had been blown away, and she had stranded, and was likely to become a wreck.