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The S.S. Earl Spencer

HOLYHEAD.—During a dense fog on the 8th January, signals were heard in the direction of the breakwater. The ThomasFielden Life-boat was launched at 5.30 A.M.and found the s.s. Earl Spencer, of Dublin, bound from Greenore for Holyhead, with passengers, a general cargo, and live stock, stranded on the rocks about 300 yards from Soldiers Point. Most of thepassengers had been taken ashore by the life-saving apparatus, and the seven who remained were taken into the Life-boat and brought safely to land..