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Samuel Dixon

WICKLOW.—The Bolert T. Garden Life-boat was launched at 7.30 A.M. on the 1st November, and proceeded to the assistance of the schooner Samuel Dixon, of "Wexford, bound from Llanelly for Wexford with a cargo of coal, which had shown a signal of distress in the roadstead during a gale from the S.E. and a very heavy sea. One of the cables had parted, and, as she was dragging her other anchor, the crew of four men were taken into the Life-boat and brought ashore..