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Kelpie

PAKEFIELD.—The Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was launched at 1.30 A.M. on the 9th Jan. last, and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Kelpie, of South Shields, bound from Hartlepool for Lowestoft with a cargo of coal, which, having parted her two anchors, drifted on the outer flat about a mile south of Pakefield, and showed signals of distress. At about 2 o'clock the vessel was reached, her crew of seven men were then taken into the'Life-boat and safely landed at Lowestoft at 3.30, the boat being towed into the harbour by the steam-tug Rainbow. A strong wind was blowing from N.E. at the time^the service was rendered, the sea was rough and the weather cold, with squalls of hail..