LOWESTOFT.—Intelligence having been received that two steamers had been in collision in the north part of Stanford Channel, The Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat put off at 9.15 A.M., on the' 10th September, and reached the vessels as they cleared each other. One of them, the s.s.

Erasmus Wilson, 496 tons, of and for London, coal laden, and having a crew of 17 persons and 8 passengers, was so badly damaged as to necessitate her being beached to prevent her from sinking.

The Life-boat, having been towed southwards by the steam-tug Rainbow, through a very heavy sea, the wind blowing strongly from the S.S.W., dropped her anchor, veered down to the vessel, and rescued eleven persons who were on board.

The remainder of the crew and passengers having taken refuge on the other steamer, the Lord Alfred Paget, of London, which was not badly injured and had brought tip in the South Boads, the Life-boat proceeded to her; took off the fourteen persons, and landed all the people safely in Lowestoft harbour at 11.20..