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The S.S. Dumail

At } 10.15 P.M. on the 29th March a messenger reported that a vessel was j ashore on the North Cheek of Robin i Hood's Bay. The Life-boat Mary Ann LocJcwood was launched and proceeded to the stranded vessel, which prov.ed to be the s.s. Dunmail, of Newcastle, with fifteen men on board, bound from Nor- denham to Seaham, in ballast. There was a light breeze from east with a thick fog and a rough sea in-shore when the steamer ran aground. The Life-boat stood by the vessel throughout the night, but in the morning there were indi- j cations that the vessel would become a total wreck and it was necessary to rescue the crew. The men were trans- ferred safely to the Life-boat, which conveyed them to Robin Hood's Bay, where they lauded at 6.30 A.M..