On the 8th March, a large ship, in attempting to make the River Tees, struck heavily on the Bar, and immediately showed signals of distress.

Soon afterwards she drifted on to the North Gare Sandbank. The wind was blowing strong from E.N.E. at the time. The Charlotte life-boat was promptly manned and launched, and succeeded in taking off the crew of 13 men and the captain's wife.

The poor woman, who had only recently been married, was in a most exhausted con- dition when brought on shore. The vessel proved to be the ship Amsterdam, of Sunder- land, in ballast.