A very- sudden and severe storm was experienced here on the 10th February, when no less than six vessels were wrecked at the mouth of the Tyno within a short dis- tance of each other, besides others that received considerable damage in making for the harbour. It had happened that on the previous day the weather had been unusually fine, and, taking advantage of that circumstance, a large fleet of wind- bound vessels had sailed from the Tyne for the South. A few hours afterwards it fell a dead calm, succeeded by stiff breezes, which ultimately increased to a terrific south-easterly gale. On the wind in- creasing a large number of the vessels made for the shelter of Shields Harbour, and many of them were successful in reaching it. It was fortunate that such was the case, for by noon, from the North to the South Pier there was one mass of broken water, with huge seas running in every direction, clashing with one another, raising large masses of spray, and rolling up the river with great swiftness and against the rocks and piers with terrible violence. At last, after some vessels had struck on the Sands, but had succeeded in getting off without much injury, no less' than four went ashore about the same time. The Shields and Tynemouth Life-boats had been got in readiness, and they at once proceeded out to the wrecks through the tremendous seas. The crews were taken off two of the vessels by the Shields Life-boats; and the Tynemouth Life-boat Constance also succeeded in saving the crew of 7 men from another of the ves- sels—the brig British Queen, of London; but although the boats made several gal- lant and determined attempts to reach the fourth wreck, their efforts were unsuc- cessful; the ill-fated crew seemed quite unable also to make use of the rocket- line which was fired over their vessel; and while one of the Life-boats was making another effort to save them, the brig began to break up, and only 2 out of the 6 men on board were saved. Later on, another vessel—the brig Valiant, of Jersey—was driven against the staging at the outer end of the North Pier, and then took the ground to the east of the Spa- nish Battery. Again was the Life-boat Constance taken out; and, encouraged by the cheers of the numerous spectators, the Life-boat men were happily the means of saying the crew of 7 men from that vessel, which soon afterwards became a total wreck. In another case later in the day, the crew of a wrecked schooner were saved by the rocket apparatus, zealously and cleverly worked by the Tynemouth Volunteer Coast Brigade. The next day not a vestige of any of these six wrecked vessels was to be seen above water..