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Agathe Scheibert, of Stettin

Ten days afterwards the Lcetitia life- boat went out in tow of the steam-tug Rainbow, and succeeded in rescuing the master and crew of the schooner Agathe Scheibert, of Stettin, which was wrecked on the Holm Sand during a strong N.E. gale.

When the life-boat reached the Sand, on which a heavy sea was breaking, it was found that the wreck was full of water, and the poor shipwrecked men were only too glad to avail themselves of the aid of the life-boat..