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Roe Cliff

TROON.—A terrific gale of wind from W. to N.W. suddenly sprung] up on the morning of the 1st November, and while the storm was at its height the schooner Roe Cliff, of Skene, bound from Porsgrund, Norway, for Troon, with a cargo of deals and battens, in attempting to take the harbour in tow of a steam-tug failed, and the tow-rope breaking and the vessel's anchors not holding she drifted on to the North Beach. The Life-boat Alexander Munnock put off to her assistance at about 12 noon, in a tremendous sea, and after strenuous efforts on the part of her crewsucceeded in rescuing the vessel's crew, consisting of six men..