THORPENESS, SUFFOLK.—The Life-boat Christopher North Graham was called out on service on the morning of the llth October, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S.W., accompanied by a heavy sea. The boat was launched at 6.30, and half-an-hour afterwards reached the distressed vessel—the brig St. Louie, of Fecamp, bound from Newcastle for Courseulles, Calvados, with a cargo of coal—stranded on the Sizewell Bank.

She was lying on her beam ends, her yards were in the water, and the sea around her was covered with floating wreckage; but no person could be seen on board. After sailing round her for some time the Life-boat men observed a ketch about a mile to the northward of her with a flag in the main rigging and proceeding to this vessel found that the brig's crew had taken refuge on board her. They had abandoned their vessel in their own boat and reached the ketch just in time, for their boat was half-full of water. The men, six in number, were taken into the Life-boat and safely landed at Thorpeness. The brig soon afterwards broke up, her stern being washed ashore at Southwold..