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Rescue of ship survivors and two infants on a wrecked steamship
The scene describes a mother on deck screaming as two infant children cling to their rescuers. Sailors push a small boat toward the stranded vessel and succeed in retrieving the children and mother, then the ship Harlequin breaks apart. The Unice is saved, and the February sinks with sixteen men lost.
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Cene
Mae
Harlequin
Unice
America
Mr. Close
Newhaven
Plymouth