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The Saint

TOTLAND BAY, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The schooner The Saint, of Padstow, while bound from Par, Cornwall, to Gravelines, with a cargo of china clay, stranded on the Warden Ledge in the early morning of the 2nd May. On receipt of information from the Coastguard that a vessel was in distress, the Life-boat Robert Fleming was launched and proceeded to her. On reaching the wreck, o ' six persons, including the master's wife, were taken into the Life-boat, which landed them in safety, but the master and mate remained on board, as they hoped to save her; later in the day, however, they had to abandon her, and she became a total wreck. During this service a gale was blowing from S.W., the sea was very rough, and a strong tide running, and in rescuing the sixpeople the Life-boat was considerably damaged..