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Guiding Star

HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Life-boat Algernon and Eleanor was launched at 1 P.M., on the 15th April, and stood by the fishing coble Guiding Star, of Hauxley, which had been overtaken by a very heavy sea. The other boats had landed, the last one to arrive being several times nearly swamped, and the Guiding Star was seen about two miles to the 8., her crew rowing against the tide, it being impossible to sail, and having to round the Bondicar buoy, where she would encounter considerable danger. The Life-boat met the boat near the buoy and accompanied her to the shore..