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RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The Lifeboat Mary Isabella was launched at 6 P.M. on the 29th January in a strong S.S.E. gale and heavy sea and succeeded in saving the crew of four hands of the schooner Useful of Barrow-in-Furness from a position of great peril. The vessel was bound from Swansea to Irvine with a cargo of coal; she had been overtaken by tempestuous weather, and when the men were taken into the Lifeboat she was on a lee shore with her anchor dragging..