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Arundel Castle

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—Signals having been fired by the Gorton Light-vessel on the llth February, the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at about 6.30 P.M., during a moderate gale and a rough sea. As the wind was blowing directly into the harbour, it became necessary to secure the services of the steam-tug Conqueror, which towed the Life-boat to the southern end of the Gorton Sand, where the ketch Arundel Castle, of London, bound for Lynn with a cargo of superphosphate, and carrying a crew of five men, was found in a helpless condition and drifting towards the land. The Lifeboat men fortunately succeeded in getting the tug's hawser to her before she struck, and she was safely towed into Yarmouth harbour..