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Lizzie

RAMSGATE.—Signal guns having been fired by the Gull light-ship on the 24th June, the Bradford Life-boat went out at 3.30 A.M., and proceeded to the Goodwin Sands, where the schooner Lizzie, of Fleetwood, coal laden, was stranded.The Life-boat was run ashore alongside the vessel, and the services of the crew were engaged by the master to get his ship afloat. They accordingly began to lighten her, and at low water carried an anchor and thirty fathoms of chain out on the. sand. When the tide flowed, the steam-tug passed her tow-rope on board, but failed to get the vessel afloat. On the water falling, more of the cargo was taken out of the ship, and the anchor was shifted to low water-mark, and at the next high tide, the tug again attached the hawser, and, after towing for about an hour and heaving on the anchor, the vessel was got afloat, and was taken into Ramsgate Harbour, arriving at 3 o'clock on the morning of the 25th June..