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Constantia, of Bremen

The same life-boat and two steam-tugs also succeeded, with much difficulty, in rescuing the ship Constantia, of Bremen, and her crew1 of 26 men, that vessel having grounded on the Goodwin Sands, in a heavy gale of wind, with heavy snow- storms, on the 26th December. On this occasion a very heavy ground-swell ren- dered it difficult to get the life-boat along- side the ship; and in doing so one of the life-boat men fell overboard, and was with difficulty rescued..