GORLESTON.—Two runaway apprentices, belonging to Ramsgate vessels, put to sea in the shrimp trawler Young Robert, of Yarmouth, intending to proceed to Grimsby, early on the morning of the 16th March. The weather was thick, with rain, the wind was blowing from the N.E. by N., and there was a considerable sea on. In, going out of Yarmouth harbour the bowsprit was carried away by collision with the pier, and through this accident and the lads' incompetency the vessel grounded on the North Sand and almost immediately filled. Their shrieks for help being heard from the pier, the Life-boat Mark Lane put off to the rescue, but in consequence of the low state of the tide, the boat had to round the N. end of the sand and come up between that and the main so as to get near the wreck. On reaching her the boys were found clinging to the rigging, and were in such an exhausted condition that one of the Life-boatmen had to get on board the trawler with a rope, by which means they were hauled into the Life-boat. On arriving ashore, medical attendance was procured, but some time elapsed before the younger boy recovered.

He was much bruised, as he had been clinging to the weather, rigging and was repeatedly dashed against the mast.