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Elizabeth, of Goole

SKEGNESS.—On the 14th April, at 8.30 A.M., the ketch Elizabeth, of Goole, while on a voyage from London to Gainsbro', was observed off this station in a disabled state, with signal of distress flying, and the crew in the rigging. A gale, with snow, was blowing from E.N.E., t. e. on shore, and in a short time the Elizabeth was observed to strike the ground and swamp. The masts remained above water, with the crew lashed in the rigging. The Life-boat Herbert Ingram tried to launch, but OH the first and second attempts was washed back on the beach, broadside on, by the violence of the surf. A third effort was made, and about 9.30 A.M. she succeeded in getting clear of the beach., and by 10 o'clock reached the wreck. Two men were rescued from their perilous position, a third had perished previous to arrival of the Life-boat, and a fourth, supposed then to have been lost, had been picked up by the brigantine with which the Elizabeth had been in collision..