CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At about 5.30 A.M.

on the 29th October, during a strong breeze from the W.S.W.,and thick weatheraccompanied by rain, rockets were fired from the Cross Sand Light-vessel. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend was at once launched, sailed towards the lightship, and on her way observed a large four-masted ship, which proved to be the Nile, of Glasgow, bound from Calcutta for Hull with a cargo of wheat and linseed, and having a crew of thirty persons, stranded on the inside of the Cross Sand with a heavy sea breaking all round her.

The Life-boat men boarded her, and their services were at once engaged to assist in getting the ship afloat. Some steam-tugs afterwards arrived, the Caister No. 1 Lifeboat Covent Garden was sent for, and on the following morning at 7 o'clock, some of her cargo having been thrown overboard, the vessel was got off the sand, and anchored in Yarmouth Roads..