The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-11-02 00:00:00

TGE GALE.

GALLANT LIFEBOAT lIVAVICIrI

At bait-put one o'clock on Thursday morning, clurins
• gele of wind from the S. W., a vessel wee renorted to
have gone ashore on the Lsnshsrns Mutt., &hint eight
miles distant from Fcrrvaide bfelioat elation. The boat,
which is named the City of Manchester, was at once
launclvid. She had • long pull, but was successful at last
In reaching the tttaeded sepal, which proved to he the
Madeline Zither, 93 tons, blond from 1.1•,w R. 44 to
Cardiff with pit-wood. The master had unfortunately
been drowned before the arrival of the lifeboat, but she
we tho moans of saving the crew of four men.

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Sleuth!' ot Matteotti were nburved in the direetion of the
routh-eut point n( Treace lolantl. As soon as poosittle the
'Nohow, st,tionei at 8.. we manned, and prof
eneded to the vernal in diotfet, which was f .unti to be
the brie messet.ger, f S lenmite. The craw o' five men
ere taken into the lifeboat, but the wind veering to the
N. W., the matter derided not to leave hit ship, and
seenrtilnety the lifeboat kept by her until daylight, when
the manned upfn were lin-led; .

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The coxsw sin and crew of the lifeboat Clemency, at
Plemouth held tb.dneelves in readiness, and at hol'-past
five o'clock, in rep 0311.4 to rockets fired fr tin the Mount
ihtt,l2 eos.t.guari etation, they proceeded to the brig
John, which had gone ashore nesr the new breakwater.
They found lb it the m-stor hal been drowned, h-it that
the crew had safely landed. Two schooners also went
*ph,e near the cna44f•tard etotion. and their crews were
surest by the rockyt apearatu.. The lifeboat then pro-
pped the schooner Fiorillo s, of Orimehy, which had
drieen ashore further south in Battmdmy, an.l found that
.he had stunk, and that oh. crew hat taken refuge in the
main el:seine, from which 'mitosis position they were
290,9 vfelly telt .n off.
The 'schooner R. 90.1% ant the fishing boat flood Intent,
wee d•leon on Whitby tom& at noon on Wednesday.
Their crews, numbering altogether 12 men, were saved by
the It :sheet Whit yorth lifebott.
The brut Emmanuel Boutcheii. of Whitby, bound from
R tterrlam, in htllast, whose sane had been blown away
in the gale fluting Welnesdisy night, way driven ashore on
the sends. about one mile south of the Burtonmn•Trent
lildsnati station. The boat was ape/Oily conveyed along
the *hors in the 'pot. The rocket life-saving apparatue,
from Chathun, w.s also taken there and hy its means a
commoniettien wits effort ni with the wreck, but the crew
were en berinnilt.4 this thy couldn't nick. 029 of the
rtr Toe lit Icnst W./, however, enabled by its Aid to fret
quickly along.ble, and took off the mer, who were landed
In an exhausted vete.
About nine o'clock on Thitroday morning the Mary, of
Shield., in trying ti make the barb tut was drawn on the
South hisnds. 9200.1'0 the Grand Hail, at 8 iarborougb.
The Nstionel Lifeboat, Ludy Leigh, wee launched, and
palled through the surf t s the vessel. She bad only jest
sired the 2790' of seven men when the mainmast went by
tile board. Monist ten o'clock the echonner Black-eyed
Suet% of Bid-ford, was seen making for the Itarlyntr, and
she, too. was driven by the wind and set on to the shore
south of the Spa. The lifelett ens again Isunched, and
amid the cheery of thonsonds if spectators, who had
'where') on the spes and -MU, she cleverly secured the
crew of seven men, and brousht them safely ashore. Soon
afterward. another brig was driven asho.e, the Betsy, and
her crew of fire men we e also saved by the lifeboat, which
had thus done a salient day's work.