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The S.S. Knud

ROBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE. — While a moderate gale was blowing from the E. accompanied by a rough sea, thick weather and rain, on the 2nd January, the s.s. Knud, of Copenhagen, bound from Ghent for Middlesbrough, in ballast, stranded on the north side of Robin Hood's Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Ephraim and Hannah Fox were summoned, and at 5 A.M. the boat was launched.

Considerable difficulty was experienced in getting alongside the wreck, but after two attempts this was successfully accomplished ; thirteen men were rescued, and, at 7 o'clock, were safely landed at Robin Hood's Bay.