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Leona

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—While the Life-boat Mary Isabella was out for practice on the 31st January, a trawler reported that a schooner was in need ofassistance, most of her sails having been blown away. A strong gale was blowing from the S.W., and there was a heavy cross sea. The Life-boat went in search of the vessel, and found her about five miles E.N.E. of Ramsey harbour where she had anchored close to the Bahama bank. The boat stood by her for an hour; but as her anchors were dragging, her crew of four men left her, and were taken into the Life-boat. The schooner was the Leona, of Belfast, bound from Cardiff for Drogheda with a cargo of coal..