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The S.S. Milwaukee

PORT ERROL., ABERDEENSHIRE.—The Life-boat Frances Camilla Howard was launched at 11 o'clock on the night of the 16th September and proceeded to the s.s. Milwaukee, of Liverpool, which had shown signals of distress, having stranded on Ctuderi Scars, in thick hazy weather, a strong S. breeze and a rough, choppy sea. At the request of the master the Life-boat remained by the ship, and at 5.30 on the following morning twenty-one men of the crew got into the boat and were taken to Port Brroll, where they were landed at 6.30 ; the remainder of the crew, numbering twenty all told, had, with the exception of the master and chief officer, been taken off by a tug and a fishing-boat..