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Claremont

BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The steamer Claremont, of Newcastle, was wrecked at Whale Chine, Isle of Wight, on the 27th January. Intelligence of the wreck was received at the Brighstone Grange Life-boat Station, and at about 11.40 P.M. the Life-boat Worcester Cadet proceeded to her assistance. Before this, voices had been heard at sea, and the Coxswain of the Life-boat therefore burnt a light and fired a gun to warn the ship's crew against landing, there being a heavy ground swell. As the tide was ebbing, the Life-boat rowed three miles W.S.W., and then picked up one of the ship's boats containing the mate and five men, who were safely landed at 3.40 on the following morning..