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Agnes Cairns

WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE. — Rockets and guns having been fired from the Gunfleet lighthouse, intimating that a vessel was stranded on the sands, on the 9th April, the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company was launched at 9.45 P.M., and found the brigantine Agnes Cairns, of Fowey, ashore about half a mile inside the Fishermen's Snatch Buoy. The Life-boat men were employed by the master of the vessel to jettison the cargo, consisting of fire-brick and gas coal, and worked at this until nearly 4 A.M. The vessel afterwards floated, with the help of a steam-tug, and sailed for Rochester. She carried a crew of five men, and had also two women on board..