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The F. T. B., of Boston

WELLS, NORFOLK.—A fishing-smack being observed with signals of distress flying, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the 23rd March, the crew of the Life-boat Baltic were summoned, and at 5 P.M. the Boat was on her way to the vessel. She was the F. T. B., of Boston, and as it was feared she would founder, her crew of four men left her, got into the Life-boat, and were brought safely to land at 8 o'clock..