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The S.S. Ardle

GREAT YARMOUTH. — The Life-boat John Surch was launched at 10 A.M. on the 22nd January, and put on board the s.s. Ardle, of Dundee, some men by whose aid the vessel, which had been stranded on the beach about two months, was got afloat, and taken to an anchorage in Yarmouth Roads, the Life-boat remaining by until this was safely accomplished.

A strong gale was blowing from N.N.E.

at the time, there was a very heavy sea, and the weather was exceedingly cold, with snow..