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Lorne and Loveid

ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—About 8 A.M.

on the 27th February a telephone message was received stating that a steamer was blowing a succession of short blasts from a foghorn and immediately afterwards another message an-ived stating that a barque was ashore. A moderate breeze was blowing from W., the sea was rough, with a heavy swell on the shoals, and the weather was thick. The Life-boat Bolton was launched, and, proceeding in a northerly direction, saw a barque ashore about four hundred yards from Misner coastguard station. Two boats were leaving her, but the sea being too heavy for them to land, they were making for a steamer which was aground on the Sizewell Bank. The Life-boat made for the steamer, the Lome, of Hull, bound for London with grain. Just before the Life-boat arrived alongside, the steamer got off the sand. The barque's crew; consisting of ten men, were taken into the Life-boat and safely landed at Aldeburgh. They reported that their vessel, the Loveid, of Porsgrund, bound from Norway for London with a cargo of ice, had also been aground on the Sizewell bank, but knocked over the sand, broke her back, and drove ashore full of water..