CAISTER AND WINTERTON, NORFOLK.— At 10 P.M. on the 1st June, a vessel was seen to get on the Middle Cross Sand and make signals of distress. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Govent Garden was at once launched and proceeded to the Sand.

On arriving there the boat's anchor was let go, and she veered down towards the vessel, but there was not sufficient water to enable the boat to reach her; she then shifted to other positions, but with the same result, the high seas breaking heavily over the boat, which struck the ground at each trial. She then anchored as close as possible until the flood tide made, when she wore down to the vessel and took off the crew of six men, hauling them through the water with a line. The master declined to leave the vessel. The Life-boat then got clear of the breaking sea but remained near at hand. At about 4 A.M.

the Winterton No. 2 Life-boat Husband arrived at the scene of the wreck, having been summoned by signals from the Cockle Lightship. On account of the heavy sea then running, she dared not haul close to the brig, but made springs fast to her cable and sheered abreast of the vessel's jibboom. The heaving - line was then thrown to the master, who made it fast to his waist, dropped into the sea, and was hauled on board the Life-boat. The vesselproved to be the Aglae, of St. Servan, with a cargo of timber..