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Julia

The schooner Julia, of and for Lowestoft, from Hartlepool, with a cargo of coal, and having a crew of four men, was seen to take the ground on the North part of the Barber Sand, at about 4.30 M. on the 25th of February, during N.E. by E. wind, and a heavy sea. An attempt was made to launch a yawl, but she was driven back on the beach. The No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, then put oif, and on reaching the vessel found that she had got afloat, but was rapidly driving ashore again on the south part the sand. She was placed in charge the Life-boat men, who extricated her from her perilous position, and anchored her until daylight, when she was sailed out of the Bing Buoy Channel into the Cockle Fairway; as she was then in safety, the Life-boat left her, and returned to her Station, arriving at 10 A.M..