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MONTBOSE.— The smack London, of Jersey, was in great danger at 1.30 P.M.

on the 18th March, having steered too far north while making for Montrose. The No. 1 Life-boat, Mincing Lane, having been launched, took up a position inside the bar, to show the vessel in which direction to steer. The smack, however, was struck by a heavy sea, and jibed with her head to the N. across the point of the Annat, another sea canted her head again, and she then managed to stand in across the bank towards the Life-boat and eventually got safely in..