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The S.S. Ida

PALLING.—A vessel having been discerned ashore on the Hasborough Sand with a signal of distress flying during squally weather and a heavy sea on the 28th July, the No. 2 Life-boat Hearts of Oak was launched at 2 P.M., and found the stranded vessel was the s.s. Ida, of and from Dantzic, with a crew of sixteen hands and two passengers, bound for London with a general cargo. 0 wing to the shallowness of the water, the Life-boat men could not board her until 9 P.M. At the request of the captain the Life-boat remained by until 1 A.M., when the weather became very threatening, and as the ship was fast filling it became necessary to abandon her. With great difficulty the eighteen persons on board were taken into the boat, and were safely landed at 6 A.M. The steamer became a total wreck..