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Magdalina

LOSSIKMOUTH, SCOTLAND.—The schooner Magdalina, of Inverness, bound from Sunderland to Dingwall with coal, was struck by a sudden squall off Burgh Head on the 25th October. Her sails were carried away, and she came into Lossiemouth bay and dropped anchor. At 8 A.M. she showed signals of distress, in reply to which Jthe Bristol and Clifton Life-boatwas launched, and brought ashore her crew of four men and their effects. The wind was then blowing a strong gale from the W.N.W.

accompanied by a heavy sea. Towards the afternoon the gale abated, and a fishing-boat went off and took ropes from the harbour to the vessel by means of which she was hauled into safety..