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Lady Ernestine

THORPENESS, SUFFOLK.—The Life-boat Ipswich put off at 1 A.M. on the 4th November, flares having been shown by a vessel during a gale from the S.S.W. and a heavy sea, and brought safely ashore the crew consisting of six men, of the schooner Lady Ernestine, of Fowey, bound for Plymouth with gas coal, who had taken to their boat, their vessel having become a total wreck on Thorpeness..