ALDBOROUGH.—Signal guns having been fired from the Shipwash Sands on the 8th April during a strong N.N.W. wind, increasing to a gate, very squally weather and a heavy sea, the Life-boat George Hounsfidd was promptly launched at 12.30 P.M. and proceeded under saifs and oars to the Sands, where the barque Rock City, bound from Christiania for London laden with ice, -was found stranded. The Life-boat remained by her several hours, it being hoped that she might float when the tide rose, but she filled with water, and at 6 o'clock commenced to break up.

Her crew of thirteen men were then taken into the boat, which was afterwards kindly towed by a steam collier towards her station, arriving there at 12.30 midnight..