, SUFFOLK.—At 2.45 P.M.

on the 2nd May, 1901, the Cross Sand Lightship fired signals, which were repeated by the St. Nicholas Lightship, and in response the Life-boat Marie Lane was launched and was towed by the steam-tug Meteor to the East Cross Sand, where the s.s. Ossian, of Leith homeward bound from Bordeaux, with a general cargo, and having on board a crew of sixteen persons and one passenger, was found to be in a very precarious position. With the help of steam-tugs and the Life-boatmen, she was got clear of the sand, brought up in the roads, and subsequently taken into harbour..