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Jane and Maria

CROMER.'—A vessel was observed on the morning of the 28th January, some distance to the northward of Cromer, labouring very heavily and apparently very deep in the water, with a signal of distress flying. The Benjamin Bond Cdblell Life-boat was launched at 11.15, and found that the signals were shown from the brigantine Jane and Maria, of London, bound from Hartlepool for Greenwich with a cargo of coal. She was in a sinking condition, having sprung a leak; her decks had been swept, and her boat and bulwarks had been carried away by a heavy sea during a tremendous gale on the previous night. She had a crew of seven men, who were brought safely ashore by the Life-boat..