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Catherine and Alice

NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. — On the 29th August, at about 9 A.M., a telegram was received from Brighton stating that a vessel flying a signal of distress had passed that town and was drifting, quite disabled, towards Newhaven, having lost her foremast. The Michael Henry Life-boat proceeded to her in tow of a steam-tug and found she was the schooner Catherine and Alice, of Nevin, from Dieppe with flint stones. She had a crew of five men, and the master's wife was also on board. The tug took her in tow to Eastbourne; the Life-boat, at the master's request, accompanying her, as she was in a very leaky condition..