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    1. BARLOW/WALKER boy saved Liverpool Mercury 1834
    2. Liverpool Mercury August 1 1834 BOY SAVED On Wednesday week about two o'clock in the morning, a young man named Wm BARLOW, took one of the large landing boats from the Seacombe slip, for the purpose of picking up a piece of wood which was floating in the river, when, getting into the tide-way, and being altogether unable to manage the boat, he was drifting down the river, and would in all probability have been carried out to sea and drowned had he not been fortuously observed and rescued from his perilous situation by Lieutenant WALKER, of the revenue cutter VIXEN, who was returning in his boat from a vessel which he had been boarding around the Rock. This is the tenth instance where Lieutenant WALKER has been instrumental in saving a human life since he has been stationed in the river Caryl

    12/14/2004 10:07:22