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Dorothy and Mary

HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress were seen in the bay at 8.30 P.M. on the llth December during a very heavy gale from the W.N.W. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off and found the schooner Dorothy and Mary, of Carnarvon, coal laden from Newcastle to Dublin, dragging her anchors near the Clipera buoy. The crew of four men were taken into the Life-boat and safely landed. The schooner became a total wreck..