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BRANCASTER, NORFOLK. — A telegram was received from the coastguard reporting a vessel in distress ofi Bnrnham Flats, on the 19th March, and as she was showing a signal for help the Life-boat Alfred S. Qenth put off to her assistance, at 1.45 P.M., and found she was the ketch Queen Mob, of London, bound from Dunkirk for Lynn. Her mast and sails had been carried away in a squall on the previous night, one of her crew had been killed by the falling gear, and the master and the other two men forming the crew had left the vessel, which was afterwards taken charge of by the crew of a fishing boat, and at their request the Life-boat men assisted to take her to Lynn..