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The S.S. Suffolk, of London,

LlZARD AND CADGWITH. The S.S. Suffolk, of London, 2,900 tons, bound from Baltimore for London, with a cargo of flour, tobacco, &c., and having a large number of cattle on board, struck the rocks at the Lizard Head during a dense fog at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of September.

As there was imminent danger of the vessel breaking up, the master decided to abandon her at once, and he and his crew, forty-five persons in all, put off in three boats, remaining for some time in Pentraeth Bay to see if help would come from the shore. Immediately on intelligence of the casualty being received, the rocket apparatus was called into requisition, and a line was fired over the vessel, but as no use of it was made, the crew having left her, the Lizard No. 2 Life-boat, The Edmund and Fanny, stationed at Polpear, was launched, and fortunately succeeded in finding the boats. The crews of two of them, numbering 24 persons, were taken into the Life-boat, and endeavours made to save the boats, but the heavy seas rendered it utterly impossible to do so, and they had to be abandoned. The Cadgwith Life-boat, The Joseph Armstrong, also put off to the help of the shipwrecked men, and rescued the crew of the third boat, consisting of 21 persons; 45 lives were thus happily rescued by these two Life-boats, their crews having very hard work, and being much exhausted on their return to their stations..