TYNEMOUTH.—At about 12.45 P.M. on the 25th May alarm guns were fired from the Spanish Battery indicating a vessel in distress. Crowds of people at once rushed to places from which the harbour could be seen, and observed that a steamer was stranded OH the Black Middens; she was in an imminently dangerous position, as the wind was blowing strongly from the N.E. and the heavy seas were making a clean breach over her. Two rockets were fired from Tynemouth, one of which carried a line across the vessel, and all the Life-boats at the month of the river were speedily manned and launched. The Tynemouth No. 1 Lifeboat Forester, belonging to the Institution, was the first to reach the vessel, and at the request of the captain, who handed a rope to the coxswain, remained alongside until the ship was towed off by several steam-tugs and taken into the harbour.

She was the s.s. Napier, of North Shields, bound from New York for the Tyne, with a general cargo..