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Evelina

LTTHAM, LANCASHIRE.—The Charles Biggs Life-boat was launched at 12.30 P.M. on the 5th November, in reply to signals of distress shown by the flat Evelina, of Euncorn, bound from Douglas, Isle of Man, to Euncorn with a cargo of railway iron. The vessel was anchored near the edge of a sandbank and was in imminent danger, the wind blowing a gale from the W.N.W. The Life-boat brought ashore her crew of three men and a boy. The same night she again went off to the vessel, remained by her all night and brought her into port on the following morning..