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LOWESTOFT.—On the evening of the 19th March, at about 8 o'clock, the schooner J%fcs, of Nyborg, Denmark, bound from Newcastle to Kgueira, with a cargo of coal, while riding ia the roads began to drive, aad at 9 o'clock, the coxswain of the Life-boat, seeing that the vessel was drifting oa to the shore, mustered his crew. The Samuel PUmsoll was launched, proceeded to her assistance, and found she was then in 13 feet of water. The Life-boat dropped her anchor, drifted down to the schooner and pat some of the Life-boatmen on board her.

The boat then took the tow-rope from the steam-tug Bainbow to the vessel, slipped her anchor, and she was towed into the harbour, arriving at 11.30. She struck the ground just as she was taken in tow..