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The S.S. Beresford

WINTERTON AND PALLING. — On the night of the 31st of January last, the s.s. Beresford, of West Hartlepool, bound from Middlesbrough for Bombay, with a general cargo, stranded on Hasborough Sand during a thick fog, a S.W. wind, and a heavy sea. On intelligence of the casualty being received, the Husband .Life-boat stationed at Winterton, and the British Workman Life-boat stationed at Palling, proceeded to the rescue. As the •weather became very stormy, the vessel's crew, consisting of twenty-two men; weretaken into the Palling Life-boat and landed at Yarmouth by a steam-tug.

With the combined efforts of the Lifeboats, steam-tugs, and other boats, the vessel was got afloat at 2 A.M. on the 5th of February, and taken to Yarmouth Koads.W.