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The Libra

A vessel was observed in the offing making direct for Saltburn, at 2 P.M. on the 8th December, and as a tremendous sea was running, and the wind was blowing a gale from the E.N.E., the crew of the Life-boat Charles and Ann were summoned, and the Lifeboat was launched. She proceeded to the vessel, which by that time had struck opposite old Saltburn, and brought ashoreher crew, consisting of five men, all of them being Germans. The wrecked vessel proved to be the Libra, of Bockzetelerfehn, bound to Hamburg, with guano..