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George and Margaret

NEWBIGGIN. — During a gale of wind from the S.E., and a heavy sea, on the 29th May, the coble George and Margaret, of Newbiggin, while making for the shore was struck by a high sea, and at once foundered, about half a mile E. of Church Point. The Robert and Susan Life-boat was promptly launched, and proceeded to the scene of the disaster ; but before she arrived, the crew of the coble were picked up by another boat, which was returning ashore. The Life-boat men, after two hours' hard work, succeeded in towing the sunken coble to land..