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The S.S. Trawler Euphrates

NORTH DEAL. — The Life-boat Mary Somermlle was called out by signals fired by the Gull Light-vessel in a strong breeze to a moderate gale and a heavy sea at about 9 on the morning of the 2nd August, and proceeded to the s.s.

trawler Euphrates, of Hull, bound from Liverpool to Great Yarmouth, which had stranded on the Goodwin Sands. The Life-boat men assisted to get the vessel afloat at high water at about 9.30 P.M., and she was able to resume her voyage almost immediately afterwards, arriving at Yarmouth at 11.25 on the following morning. She carried a crew of eight men, and the master's wife was also on board..