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Sarah

JOHNSHAVEN.—Between 1 and 2 o'clock on the morning of the 7th February, a small steamer, the Sarah, of Montrose, bound from Bridgeness for Fraserburgh with coal, was observed by the watch at the coastguard station to be dangerously near the land. Soon afterwards she struck on the outlying rocks and began to fill with water, whereupon the skipper headed for the shore, blew his whistle and showed flare-lights. The life-saving apparatus was taken out and three rockets were fired, but the vessel, which had then stranded, was too far distant for the lines to reach her. The Life-boat Meanwell, of Qleribervie, put off, rescued the vessel's crew of five men and landed them in the harbour, the Life-boat men having a long and hard pull against the wind, which was blowing a strong galefrom S.W., and a rough sea on the return journey..