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The S.S. Mosel

LIZARD. — A rocket from the signal station was heard at about 8 A.M. on the 9th August. The Honorary Secretary, the Eev. P. VYVYAN ROBINSON, and the Coxswain of the Life-boat at once proceeded there, and ascertained that a screw steamer had gone on shore close -to the signal station. For some time the fog hid her, but when she was seen clearly, and found to be full of people, the Life-boat Anna Maria proceeded to her assistance and took off twenty-seven persons. The remainder of those on board were saved by other boats and a steam-tug. The vessel was the North German Lloyd's mail s.s.

Mosel, of Bremen, bound from that port to New York, with seven hundred passengers, a crew of one hundred' persons, and a cargo of railway iron, specie, and general cargo. She ultimately became a total wreck..