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Isabella Helen

ST. PETER'S PORT, GUERNSEY.—While the schooner Isabella Helen, bound from Plymouth for Guernsey with a cargo of limestone and wood, was endeavouring to enter the harbour in a strong gale from E.S.E. on the night of the 14th February, she missed stays and was compelled to bring up with two anchors in a very dangerous position off the Terres rocks.

In response to her signals of distress the Life-boat Vincent Wilkinson, Kirk Ella, was launched and was towed to the vessel by the tug Alert. On reaching her two of the Life-boat men boarded her, assisted to get a tow-rope to the steamer and to weigh the anchors, and she was towed into the outer harbour and anchored there between 5 and 6 o'clock on the following morning.

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