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Mary Jane

KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—The schooner Mary Jane, of Barrow, which had left Maryport for Port William with a cargo of coal on the 22nd March, entered the river on the 23rd March at 2.30 A.M., and lay in Boss roads awaiting suitable weather to enable her to proceed to Port William. On the following morning the wind blew from N.E. and increased to a gale. The vessel's anchor dragged, her tiller broke, and she commenced to leak. A message was despatched by telephone from Boss Island to the coxswain of the Life-boat, and in response the Life-boat Hugh and Ann was launched at 12.40 P.M., proceeded to the vessel, rescued her crew, consisting of two men, and landed them at Brighouse Bay..