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Professo

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — The Two Sisters Life-boat was launched at 5.30 on the evening of the 2nd October, to the assistance of the brig Professo, of Tvedestrand, Norway, bound from Sundswall for Ramsey, with a cargo of timber. She was lying at anchor in the bay during a whole gale from the W.N.W., when she drifted, and the master fearing that the chain, which was weak, would part, and that the vessel would drift on to the Bahama bank and become a total wreck, cut away the masts and showed signals of distress. The master and pilot weie brought ashore by the Life-boat to make arrangements for having the vessel brought in. The gale moderated, and on the following day the brig was towed into the harbour by a steamer..