HARWICH.—-At noon on the 7th Feb., in answer to a telegram, the Springwtll Life-boat was manned and put off to the rescue of the crew of a vessel ashore on the Shipwash Sand. A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing at the time, and the sea was heavy on the Sands. The tug Harwich picked the boat up outside the harbour and towed her to the Sands, where the coxwain first spoke a large screw steamer, the Sea, of Aberdeen, and found that she had been lying by the wreck^and that the master had made several unsuccessful attempts to rescue the crew who were still on the wreck. The tug then towed the Life-boat to windward so that she could set her sails and reach the wreck.

On arriving alongside the vessel, which was found to be the barque Loreley, of Memel, bound from Memel to London, with a cargo of timber, the Life-boat anchored, threw her grappling-rope to her,and, with much difficulty and danger owing to floating wreckage, rescued her crew, consisting of eleven men, by means of the rope. The tug then la-ought the Life-boat back to the harbour, arriving there at about 6 P.M. The vessel was a total wreck, her foremast and mainmast having been carried away, she had lostj her boats, and her crew were in an €& hausted condition having been in the rigging some hours..