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Shamrock

THEDDLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE. — At daybreak on the 19th April the trawler Shamrock, of Hull, was observed ashore about a quarter of a mile N. of the Theddlethorpe Life-boat station, during stormy weather and a very heavy sea.

The Life-boat Dorinda and Barbara put off to her assistance, but, owing to the wind and the unusually heavy sea, she was driven to leeward, and had to be beached. She, however, proceeded out again as soon as the tide served, and with great difficulty, owing to the floating wreckage and the heavy surf round the wreck, she succeeded in rescuing the crew, consisting of five men, from the rigging of their sunken vessel..