EA. — The Albert Edward Life-boat was launched at 2 A.M. on the 27th January, during a heavy S.S.W. gale, signals of distress having been shown by a vessel, which had stranded about a mile and a half to leeward of the Gunfleet Sand. She was found to be the s.s. Hawthorn, of, and for, London, bound from the North with coal. At the master's request three of the Life-boatmen were left on board the steamer to help to throw some of the cargo overboard, and the boat returned ashore and telegraphed to Harwich for a steam-tug. On the Life-boat again arriving at the vessel, it was found that she had backed off the sand ; the three Life-boat men were therefore taken into the boat, and she returned to her station..