At about 1 P.M. on the 19th November guns were heard in the direction of the Cross Sand. The wind was blowing a moderate breeze from the W.S.W., the sea was moderate and the weather was very thick. A yawl put off and sailed to the sand where the steamer Carthagena, of and for London from Cronstadt, with a cargo of wood, was found stranded. An attempt was made to get the vessel afloat at high water but it failed, and at dusk the master requested the yawl to return to the shore and send out the Life-boat to remain by him during the night. The No. 1 Lifeboat Covent Garden was launched at 7 P.M., and laid by the vessel until at 1.30 on the following morning she was got off and was taken into Yarmouth Roads..