CLACTON.—On the morning of the 10th March news was received that a man had landed about two miles east of Clacton at eight o'clock in an open boat which was nearly full of water. He had been taken to a farmhouse by some labouring people, and stated that he had left four men on his vessel, the schooner J. W. Sebell, of Beaumaris, bound from Aberdeen for London with a cargo of granite. The coxswain of the Life-boat Albert Edward, on being apprised of the event, at once proceeded in a conveyance to the farmhouse to obtain from the man the approximate position of the vessel.

He brought the man with him in the carriage to Clacton, and handed him over to the charge of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society's Agent. At 11.30 the Life-boat was launched, proceeded across the Wallet and Gunfleet Sands, and was kindly taken in tow by the s.s. Rosalind,of Newcastle, to about two miles below the Gunfleet Light, where the boat was slipped, sail was set, and after passing through a tremendous quantity of broken water and shipping several heavy seas, she arrived at the vessel and found two men in the main rigging. One of the men was taken into the Life-boat; he reported that the other man was dead, and that the master and the cook had been washed overboard and drowned.

One of the Life-boat men ascended the rigging, cut away the lashings of the dead body, and lowered it into the boat.

While this was being effected one of the boat's crew was dragged overboard by the vessel's rigging, but was happily rescued by his comrades. The Life-boat then made for her station, and arrived there at 4.30 P.M..