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Mary and Ann

SOOTHPOBT, liAHCASHIBE. While the wind was blowing half a gale from the W., on the morning of the 14th May, the schooner Mary and Ann, of Bundalk, bound from Annalong, Co. Down, to (Jarston, with a cargo of stone, was observed to be In the vicinity of the Horse Bank. Her sails were blown away and masts broken, and she was apparently touching the sand. The crew of the Lifeboat Klisa, Fernley were summoned, and the boat was promptly launched; but meanwhile the vessel had been released by the flowing tide, and was helplessly drifting towards the Kibble until she was brought up by her anchor. The wind and tide favouring the Life-boat, the schooner was soon reached, and her crew of three men were taken into the boat and brought safely ashore. The unfortunate vessel, which was about seventynine years old, was leaking badly, and labouring heavily at her anchor in the heavy seas which were running at the time, rendering the position of her crew one of much danger..