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The S.S. Falcon

PALLING and WINTERTON.—Guns having been fired by the North Hasborough Lightship on the 26th November, during a strong W.S.W. wind and a heavy sea, the Palling No. 2 Life-boat British Work- •inan and the Winterton No. 2 Life-boat Husband put off and found the s.s. Falcon, of and from Sunderland, bound for Italy with a cargo of iron, stranded on the middle part of Hasborough Sand. The Life-boats remained by the vessel and assisted to get her afloat and take herinto Yarmouth Boads, returning to their stations on the morning of the 29th November..