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Parkside

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.— Signals of distress being shown by the brigantine Parkside, of Dundalk, on the 11th May, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W. with a heavy sea, the Life-boat Mary Isabella put off to her a-sistance at 9.55 A.M. Having become unmanageable the vessel had been anchored but was very close to the Whitestone Bank. H«r crew of five men, fearing she would founder, had put on lifebelts and bad their kits ready to take with them into the Life-baat, ami at noon the boat returned to her station with the men and their belongings..