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Queen of the Isles

GORLESTON.—In response to signals of distress on the 15th October the Mark Lane Life-boat was launched at about 7.30 P.M., and found they had been shown by the three-masted schooner Queen of the Isles, of Wick, bound from. Tonsberg, Norway to Sunderland, with a cargo of pit props. She had parted her starboard anchor, and when brought up by the port anchor she was close under the bows of a steam ship, and as a collision was feared, she signalled for assistance. The wind was blowing from the N.E., squally with rain and a rough sea. The Life-boat remained by the vessel during the night and she was taken to a safe position on the following day..