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The S.S. Dicky, of Liverpool and the S.S. Leeds City

Faltnouth, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the same night a vessel in Falmouth Harbour signalled for help by whistle and rocket, and the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare put out. A whole southerly gale was then blowing, with a very heavy sea. She found that the s.s. Dicky, of Liverpool, with a crew of ten aboard, had dragged her anchors and had gone ashore near Kiln Quay. At the request of the master the life-boat returned ashore, arranged for a tug to go out, and went back to the Dicky to warn her to be ready when the tug arrived. Early next morning the tug refloated her, but just before midnight signals of distress were seen from another steamer ashore on Mullonan Point, Falmouth Harbour, and at 12.15 the life-boat went to her help. She was the s.s. Leeds City, of Bideford, bound in ballast from London to Falmouth, and had a crew of about forty on board. The life-boat stood by until two o'clock in the morning. The master then asked for tugs and the life-boat went to fetch them, returned with them and passed their hawsers to the Leeds City. The gale was now very severe, and the tow parted, but the life-boat fixed another tow and stood by until the steamer had been refloated. She accompanied her to the Falmouth Docks and arrived back at her station at ten o'clock in the morning of the 30th of March.—-Property Salvage Cases..