CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 5th November, a three-masted vessel was observed ashore on the East Burrows or Sunk Sand, but no signals could be made out even with the aid of a powerful telescope. The wind was blowing from the S.S.W. accompanied by rain, and the sea was very rough. At 8.40 A.M. the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched, having the wind and tide against her, at about 11 o'clock the wind and rain increased, and at 2 o'clock two reefs had to be taken in both lugsails.

On reaching the vessel at about 2.30, she I was found to be the three-masted schooner | Ocean Bride, of Guernsey, bound from Shields for Granville with coal, ashore on the Middle Sunk Sand. The master requested the Life-boat to stand by in case the vessel did not come off. The tide was then rising, and at about 4 P.M. the crew signalled that they wished to be taken off; the Life-boat then, with much difficulty and danger, rescued the master and the crew, consisting of seven men and a boy, with their clothing, and landed them at Clacton at about 6 o'clock. The vessel became a total wreck..