Charles Challoner
FLEET WOOD.—On the night of the 18th September the barque Charles Ohattoner, of Fleetwood, bound for that port from Quebec, with timber, was endeavouring to make the harbour in tow of a steam-tug; but the steamer was not sufficiently powerful, as the wind was blowing a gale from W.N.W. at the time, and about midnight the barque was driven on to Bernard Wharf, a sandbank about a mile eastward of the Wyre Light. Her crew of 19 men leaped on board the tug, but a boy still remained on the vessel, he being unable to escape in that way. As the steamer dared not approach any nearer the stranded ship, signals of distress were shown, in response to which the Life-boat Edward Wasey put off, went alongside the vessel, and succeeded in rescuing the boy..