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Matilda, of Stockholm

On the 26th February the services of this valuable life-boat were again called into re- quisition. Early in the morning the boat of the brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm, with 4 of her crew, and a Lowestoft pilot on board, found their way into Lowestoft Har- bour, and reported that their vessel, with 6 more men on board, was ashore on the Corton Sand, and fast breaking up. The Harbour steam-tug had, fortunately, her stea"rn up at the time, and the Lowestoft life-boat having been manned, she took her in tow and conveyed her to windward of the Sand, where they found the unfortunate vessel a broken-up wreck. The life-boat quickly made sail to the spot, and dropping her an- chor amidst the broken fragments of the wreck, succeeded in rescuing 4 of the unfor- tunate vessel's crew, the remaining 2 having been washed off the wreck and drowned be- fore her arrival. Captain RIVERS, Harbour Master of Lowestoft, went out in charge of the tug, without the aid of which the life- boat would not have reached the wreck in time to have been of service..