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RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — While the wind was blowing from S.S.W., with the force of a strong breeze to a moderate gale, very squally, with a somewhat rough sea, and rain, on the 13th April, a signal of distress was shown by the ketch Newlands, of Belfast, which was dragging her anchor about a mile E. of the harbour. The Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched at 7.38 P.M., took off the crew of two men, and two pilots who had boarded the vessel in the morning to try to get her into the harbour, and safely landed them at 8.15..