WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE AND HARWICH.

—The Honourable Artillery Company Lifeboat, stationed at Walton, was summoned by a telegram from the Sunk Light-ship, on the 4th December, stating that signals of distress were seen S.W. of the Long Sand or Kentish Knock. The boat put off at about 9.15 P.M., and steered for the N.E.

buoy of the Gunfleet, thence for the middle of the Long Sand, no signals beingseen; then sailed towards the Long Sand Head, and afterwards altered her course for the upper part of the Long Sand.

Ultimately rockets were seen, and the vessel was found stranded S.W. of the Long Sand. She was reached at 2 A.M., and proved to be a fall-rigged ship, named the Constanze, of and from Hamburg for Cardiff in ballast, and carrying a crew of nineteen men. The Life-boat remained by the vessel two hours, and finding the wind and sea increase as the tide rose, the crew were taken into the boat and landed at 4 o'clock on the following afternoon.

The vessel was afterwards saved by the Harwich Life-boat Springwell, assisted bya steam-tug, which also put off in reply to signals of distress..