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Wear

WHITBY.—At about 5.30 P.M., on the 3rd of May, the sloop Wear, of Sunderland, bound from Hartlepool for Walcott with coal, while attempting to enter the harbonr in a very heavy sea, missed the entrance, became unmanageable, drifted into the heavy breakers north of the west pier, and eventually stranded on. the beach, about half-a-mile from the pier. The Whitby No. 2 Life-boat, Harriott Forteath, was launched, and in the presence of thousands of spectators, rescued the vessel's crew of two men who had taken to the rigging in order to save themselves from being washed off the deck by the heavy seas..