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Svend

ALDBOROUGH.—The George Hounsfield Life-boat was launched at 10 P.M. on the 9th April, during a N.E. wind and a heavy sea, signal rockets having been observed in the direction of the Shipwash Light Vessel. They were found to have been sent up by the steamer Svend, of Copenhagen, which required a pilot, and as one had volunteered to go out in the Life-boat when she went off, he was put on board the vessel and took her to London, to which port she was bound..