St. George
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE.—Signals having been hoisted at the Gunfleet light-vessel denoting that immediate assistance was required, on the 27th June, the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company was launched at 6.13 P.M. in a moderate sea and a W.S.W. wind, and steered for the Swin, where she fell in with a steamer, and was towed to windward of the vessel in distress, which was the brig St. George, of Guernsey, bound from London for Shields, laden with chalk, and which had stranded about two and a half miles from the Gunfleet Light. She was then high and dry and the Life-boat had to wait two hours before she could get to her. Several boatmen were in charge and were throwing out the cargo so as tolighten her, and with, the help of a steaming she was got afloat at high water, the Life-boat remaining by her until she was out of danger..