BROADSTAIRS.—A message by telephone was received from the North Sand Head Light-vessel on the 27th May, reporting a vessel ashore on the Goodwin Sands.

A moderate gale of wind was blowing from the N.N.E., there was a heavy sea on the sands, and the weather was thick, with squalls of rain. At 2 P.M. the Lifeboat Christopher Waud, Bradford, was launched and found the stranded vessel was the three-masted schooner Suomi, of Luvia, timber-laden, and carrying a crew of nine men. She was full of water and the heavy seas were breaking over her.

Efforts were at once made to save the ship, and with the help of the Ramsgate steam-tug this was accomplished. She was got off the sands and taken into Ramsgate Harbour.