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Charlie Blackwood

DONNANOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE.—At 4.45 A.M. on the 18th December, the Lifeboat Richard was launched, flares having been reported to have been shown by a vessel between the Sand Hale and the Rose Sand. The wind was blowing from the N.W., and the sea was rough. In a quarter of an hour the vessel was reached and found to be the three-masted schooner Charlie Blackwood, of and for Hull, from Norway with ice. At the request of the master the Life-boat men took out warps and anchors, and remained by the vessel until she floated..