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City of Hamburg

SALCOMBE.—At 10 P.M. on the 7th August, a boat, containing the master of the steamer City of Hamburg, of Dublin, whose hands and arms were severely injured, and five other persons, arrived at Salcombe, and her occupants reported their vessel to be ashore on the rocks three miles W. of Bolt Head. A dense fog prevailed at the time. The Life-boat Lesty was launched, found one of the steamers' boats containing eight men, and brought the boat and those on board her safely into port at 3 A.M. The remainder of the vessel's crew, ten men, had put off in another boat, and the Life-boat therefore again went out in search of them, but did not succeed in finding them; the boat was eventually picked up by the coastguards at Mothecombe..