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June Kilgour

The barque Jane Kilgour, of London, went on the Cross Sands, off this coast, on the 22nd Feb- ruary, and the Caister beachmen proceeded to her in one of their yawls, and endea- voured, by cutting away the masts, to get her off the sands. Their efforts, however, proved unsuccessful, and, as the night was coming on, and they feared there would bo no means of saving the vessel's crew, on the flood-tide making, a message was despatched to the shore, by another yawl which had come out, for the large Life-boat, which arrived at the Sands about five o'clock in the evening, and remained by the barque for about three hours, when, as there was about fourteen feet of water in her, the crew of 13 men had to abandon her. Accordingly they were taken into the Life-boat, which pro- ceeded with them towards Yarmouth, into which harbour the boat was towed by a steam-tug. The vessel afterwards became a total wreck. She was on a voyage to Demerara, with a cargo of coals..