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Eliza Bell

HOLYHEAD.—A telegram was received at 8.50 A.M. on the 6th September, reporting a vessel in distress half a mile from the South Stack. The signal for the Lifeboat was at once fired, and in seven minutes the Thomas Fielden was launched, and proceeded through a very heavy sea to the schooner Eliza Bell, of Beaumaris, bound from Bray to Bangor in ballast, which had had both her masts carried away. A steam-tug took her in tow, and the Life-boat accompanied her into the harbour..