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The S.S. Flamingo

The Coxswain of the Life-boat Mark Lane having been informed by a coastguardsman that a steamer was aground on the Cross Sand, while the wind was blowing from W., accompanied by a moderate sea and thick weather, on the 7th June, he at once summoned the crew, and at 10.55 A.M. the Life-boat was launched. On arriving at the south part of the sand, the s.s. Flamirjo, of Hall, homeward bound from Dunkirk, with a general cargo, was found stranded, and the Life-boat stood by her for three hours, when she got off the sand and proceeded on her way..