On the morning of the 25th August, during a S.S.W. gale and heavy sea, the barque Strathden, of Dundee, was seen to go ashore on the north-west end of the Middle Cross Sand. A yawl immediately proceeded to her assistance, and the master engaged the service of her crew to try to save the vessel. They laid out an anchor and warp, and were returning to the barque, when a heavy sea broke on board the yawl, filling her above the ballast. Signals were then made for the Life-boat, in response to which the Covent Garden Life-boat proceeded to the barque and remained by her. In the meantime two steam-tugs had been engaged, and towed during the flood tide, but they were unable to move the vessel. The men on board, assisted by the crew, threw overboard some of the carg^> of coal, butthe wiad and sea increasing, the vessel fell over to windward at about an hour and a half before low water. The Lifeboat then, with considerable difficulty and risk, took the men off her, the boat striking heavily on the ground all the time, and shipping a great quantity of water. The barque was bound from Leith to Buenos Ayres, and carried a crew of twelve men..