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Lorn

HOLYHEAD.—On the 4th of April, 1886, at midnight, the schooner Lorn, of Lancaster, bound from Wicklow for Liverpool, showing signals of distress during a moderate gale from the S.W., the Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off to her assistance.

She was about half-a-mile from the head of the breakwater, and was dragging heranchors. Her crew, consisting of four men, were brought ashore by the Lifeboat, and on the following morning the boat again went out, and assisted to bring the vessel into the harbour..