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Brilliant

BTTE, SUSSEX. The Mary Stanford Lifebout was launched at 2 A.M. on the 21st May, in reply to signals of distress shown by a vessel which proved to be the schooner Brilliant, of Fowey, bound from Antwerp to Plymouth, with a cargo of plate-glass and zinc, and carrying a crew of six men. She had missed stays, and had stranded about a mile and a half off Camber. The Life-boat remained by her until she floated, and was enabled to resume her voyage..