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Lizzie Lee

MABLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE. — At 8 P.M. on the 15th February, while a fresh breeze was blowing from the S.S.E., the Life-boat Heywood was launched, it having been reported that a ship was stranded. On reaching the vessel, which had stranded at Saltfleet Haven, she was found to be the brigantine Lizzie Lee, of Goole, bound from Methil for Dover, with a cargo of coal. The tide had fallen and, as the vessel was still on the sand, the master requested the Life-boat to remain by him until high water, but she did not float when the tide rose and the Life-boat took off ten men who had gone on board to assist in the efforts to get her afloat.

They were landed at Saltfleet at 7 o'clock on the following morning. At 7 P.M. the vessel floated and was towed away..