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Kate

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The yawl Kate, of Liverpool, in trying to enter the harbour on the 1st September in a strong breeze from the S.W. and a rough sea, was driven close to the North pier, A steam-tug took the yacht's tow-rope, but it broke; her own hawser was then attached, but it also parted, and the vessel drifted oa to the North Sand. The No. 2 Life-boat Leicester put off to her assistance and rescued her crew, consisting of six men, and a beachman who had boarded her from a harbour boat. The vessel became a total wreck..