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Rosalie

BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—A vessel having been observed stranded on Bernbridge Ledge, the Life-boat Queen Victoria was launched at 8.50 P.M. on the 2nd January and proceeded through a rough sea, the wind blowing a strong gale from W.N.W., to the scene of the casualty.

The vessel was found to be the schooner Rosalie, of Calais, bound from Boulogne for Eochefort with cement. She was full of water and had every appearance of becoming a total wreck. Her crew of five men and a boy were taken into the Lifeboat and were brought safely to land at 11.30..