CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At 7.30 A.M. on the 15th April, , of Sunderland, coal laden from South Shields to Genoa, stranded on the Cross Sand. A yawl was launched, and on arriving at the steamer the master engaged her services to assist to get the vessel off. A larger yawl afterwards went to the steamer at about 9 o'clock, when the wind began to freshen and the sea was becoming heavy.

The first yawl then returned ashore in tow of a steam-tug for the Life-boat Govent Garden, which was launched and towed to the vessel, reaching her at about noon. The wind and sea still increasing, at 4.45 the sea broke over the ship, when most of the crew and several of the beachmen left her and got into the Lifeboat, expecting every minute that the steamer would become a total wreck.

Eventnally, however, with the aid of two steam-tugs, and anchors and hawsers, which had been laid out by the beachmen, the vessel was got off the Sand and taken to Yarmouth Harbour, the Lifeboat accompanying her..