WHITBY.—On the 12th March, at about 1 P.M., the s.s. Lorentzen, of London, was seen to become unmanageable and to be fast drifting on to Whitby Rocks. As the crew were in great peril, the Robert Whitworth Life-boat proceeded to their aid.

With great difficulty and danger the crew of 17 men were taken off the steamer, which by that time had gone on the rocks.

She was rapidly filling with water, and shortly after the crew were landed she parted amidships, and in a very few hours was a complete wreck.