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Mornington, Susannah and Iris

LOWESTOFT.—During a heavy gale from the N.E., on the 28th October, several shipwrecks, with loss of life, took place off Lowestoft. At about 11 P.M. the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat, after much regrettable delay and difficulty, was launched and proceeded to three vessels which were ashore at the back of the south pier, and succeeded in rescuing seventeen men, viz., eight men from the brig Mornington, of Colchester; eight from the brig Susannah Divon, of Whitby; and one man from the brig Iris, of Whitby..