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A Piledriver

JULY 5TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderatesqually S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough breaking sea. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was launched at 7.32 A.M. and went to the pile-driver, which was then two hundred yards from the shore. The lifeboat anchored to windward, veered down and with some difficulty rescued the two men.

They were given stimulants and taken to Yarmouth.-Rewards, £7 16s.