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Mary Jane

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—While a moderate gale from the S.S.W. was blowing and in thick weather, the schooner Mary Jane, of and for Eamsey from Whitehaven with a cargo of coal, was seen labouring heavily, having her sailstorn and rendered useless, abont four miles E.N.E. of Kamsey on the afternoon of the 2nd July. The Life-boat Mary Isabella put off to her assistance at 5.45, some of the Life-boat men boarded her and, as she was leaking badly, the pumps were kept going for an hour ; but the water continued to gain on them and it ultimately became necessary to abandon the schooner and take to the Life-boat, the vessel's crew of three men being safely landed by the boat at 9.20..