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Louisa

WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—At about 4 A.M.

on the 5th January a rocket was fired from the Wold lightship. The crew of the Husband Life-boat immediately mustered and the boat was1 launched. She went to the lightship, which reported that a light had been seen on the Hasborough Sand. The Life-boat proceeded there, and found the brig Louisa, of Stettin, Prussia, bound from Hull to Plymouth with coal, sunk in the sand, her topsail being just out of the water. Fortunately she discovered one of the vessel's boats, having five of the crew and a woman on board; those six persons were takeninto the Life-boat and brought safely ashore. The remaining three men of the crew, who had taken to another of the vessel's boats, were picked up by a smack and taken to Great Yarmouth..