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Jannetta

PORT LOGAN.—A telegram having been received on the morning of the 6th February from Sandhead, reporting that vessel about three miles north of that place was showing signals of distress, the Life-boat Edinburgh and £. M. Ballantyne was taken to Chapel Bossan Bay, launched and proceeded to the vessel. She proved to be the schooner Jannetta, of Belfast, bound from Maryport for Donaghadee; having had to encounter a strong S.S.E.

gale, she became unmanageable and finally ran ashore. Her crew, consisting of three men, were taken into the Life-boat and were landed at Sandhead..