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Jane Douglas

The schooner Jane Douglas, of Gloucester, bound from Plymouth for Liverpool, showed signals of distress at 5.40 on the morning of the 17th November. The Holyhead No. 1 Life-boat, Thomas Fielden, immediately put off, and on reaching the vessel found that she had lost her sails, and was riding heavily at her anchor inChurch Bay. As the wind was blowing a gale from the W.S.W. and there was a heavy sea, the vessel's crew of five men jot on board the Life-boat and were brought to land..