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John Davies and Maggie Brocklebank

LITTLEHAVEN.—The Friend Life-boat proceeded to the assistance of two schooners, the John Davies, of Carnarvon, bound from Portmadoc for Bridgewater with a cargo of slates, and the Maggie Brocklebank, of Barrow, bound from Liverpool for Swansea with coal-tar pitch, which showed signals of distress as they were riding heavily at their anchors in St.

Bride's Bay during a N.W. wind, stormy weather, and a rough sea, on the evening of the 16th December. The crews, consisting altogether of eight men, were taken into the Life-boat and brought safely ashore..