SOUTHWOLD.—On the morning of the 13th January information was received that a vessel was on the outer shoal about a mile N.E. of the town. The No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Oorry put off at 7.30 and found that the vessel was the brig James and Eleanor, of Shields. A whole gale of wind was blowing from the S.E.

by S., and a terrific sea was breaking on the shoal where she was lying, her crew having taken refuge in the fore-rigging.

The Life-boat let go her anchor, and while sheering alongside the vessel the latter's foremast broke off close to the deck, throwing the crew into the sea. One of the men, who was swimming, was taken into the boat, which then went amongst the wreckage and rescued another man, but before any others could be saved the boat was driven broadside on to the beach. Two of the shipwrecked crew were rescued by men wading from the shore into the surf with lines, but the master and two men unhappily lost their lives..