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Aberlemno

ILFRACOMBE.—On the 2nd April the Life-boat Co-Operator No. 2 was called out in squally weather to the assistance of the barque Aberlemno, of Swansea, coal laden from Barry, which had stranded on a point called Egg Bock, W. of Combmartin, in a heavy snowstorm. The Life-boat men laid out a kedge anchor, and with the help of some men from Combmartin,Combmartin, who had boarded the vessel, she was ultimately got afloat..