PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. At 11 P.M., on the 22nd February, the brigantine Georgina, of Portmadoc, bound from London, to Cork, with a cargo of railway sleepers, struck on the Levellers Rocks to the north-eastward of this place. The night was very thick and dark, and a strong wind was blowing from the N.E., causing a heavy sea on the shore. The coxswain of the Mary Ann Storey Life-boat, seeing the vessel's signals of distress, got his crew together as quickly as possible, launched the Boat, and rescued the vessel's crew, consisting of five men. They were overjoyed at the approach of the Life-boat, as they had been every moment expecting a watery grave. The ship was in shallow water and surrounded by sharp rocks, rendering the Life-boat service very hazardous, as the Boat was liable at any moment to strike on them. The men had to be taken off by a hawser over the stem, and the master, being the last to leave, had to be hauled through the water.

The signals of distress had been made with paraffin poured over an old sail, and after the crew had been rescued, the flames caught the vessel and burnt her to the water's edge..