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Katharine

BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. The schooner Katharine, of Banff, bound from Bo'ness for Poole with a cargo of coal, struck on the North Steel Bocks, off Boulmer, in a S.S.E. wind and a high sea, on the morning of the 2nd November,foggy weather having obscured the lights.

The Life-boat Eobin Hood of Nottingham, was launched at about 4 o'clock, proceeded to the vessel, and finding her stranded and full of •water, took off her crew of five men, aud brought them safely to land..