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Margaret Alice Dale

On the 26th January the coxswain of the Life-boat observed a smack showing signals of distress during a storm from the S.W. The Life-boat was immediately launched, and on reaching the vessel found her to be the Margaret Alice Dale, bound for Milford with coal. She was dragging her anchors, and the sea was making a complete breach over her; and had the wind continued, she would probably have been driven ashore. Her crew of two men were taken into the Life-boat, and landed at Tenby at 4 o'clock..