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Sarah Elizabeth (1)

RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—Signal guns having been fired by the Gull and North Sand Head light-vessels on the 14th January, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, and Christopher Waud, Bradford, of Broadstairs, left their stations at 7.45 P.M. and proceeded to the N.E. part of the Goodwin Sands, where the schooner Sarah Elizabeth, of Chester, was found stranded and sunk. A moderate gale was blowing from the E.N.E., there was a heavy sea, and the weather was very cold, with snow squalls. On arriving near the sands the Ramsgate Life-boat was slipped from the harbour steam-tug Aid, which had towed her out, proceeded in the direction in which flares from the vessel were seen, and rescued four of the shipwrecked crew, the remaining man taking refuge on board the Broadstairs Life-boat, which had come up on the other side of the ship. The Ramsgate boat then rejoined the steamer and was towed back to Ramsgate, the Broadstairs boat returning to her station under gu.il..