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Vanadis

GORLESTON.—Signal-gnus having been fired by the St. Nicholas light-vessel on the llth April, the Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 11 P.M., spoke the lightship and found that the guns she had fired were in response to those fired by the Cockle light. The Life-boat thereupon made for the Cockle and, en route, fell in with the steam-tug Tare which took her in tow. The crew of the Cockle stated that they had fired in answer to signals from the North Hasborough lightship, but that they had observed flares burning in the Wold. Shaping their course N. J W., the Life-boat and tug found the barque Vanadis, of Cimbrishamn, sunk about three miles S.W. of the North Hasborough light-vessel. No trace of her crew could be found, and the Life-boat therefore proceeded in tow of the steamer to the North Hasborough light-ship and ascertained that the crew of fifteen men and the master's wife had taken refuge there. They were taken into the Life-boat and landed at Great Yarmouth..