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Brabloch

BULL BAY.—Signals of distress were shown by a vessel lying between the East Mouse and Amlwch port, on the evening of the 12th January. They were repeated in quick succession, and the Lifeboat Curling was promptly launched, four minutes only elapsing from the time the order was given to the time the boat was afloat, and proceeded to the vessel, which was ascertained to be the ship Brabloch, of Glasgow, with a cargo of grain from San Francisco for Liverpool. She had stranded about two hundred yards EJ3.E.

of the East Mouse in the thick weather which then prevailed. At the request of the master the Life-boat remained by the vessel until she floated and wastaken in tow by a coasting steamer for Holyhead..