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The S.S. Red Rose

PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 18th July, during a thick fog, the s.s. Red Rose, of Cardiff, grounded on the Hasborough Sand. Some yawls went to her assistance, but finding that these boats did not return, and that the vessel still remained fast, at 3 A.M. on the following day the British Workman Lifeboat was launched, and with the combined efforts of the boats and steam-tugs the steamer was got off and taken into Yarmouth Roads. She was bound from the Tyne to Alexandria with coal, and had a crew of twenty-two men and two passengers..