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Spider

RYE, SUSSEX. — The yacht Spider, of Ramsgate, brought up at 11.30 P.M. on the 2nd June, about a mile off Camber.

The wind was blowing strongly from the E.N.E., and the vessel was lying too near the shore, so that on the tide ebbing, she struck the ground, parted her chain, and drove ashore, where she almost dried at low water. On the tide flowing, the Mary Stanford Life-boat went to her assistance, some of the Life-boatmen went on board the yacht to assist at the pumps, as she was leaking badly, and the vessel and nine persons on board were taken into the harbour.