The steamer Bluff, of Durban, bound from Grimsby to South Africa, where she was intended for the fishing trade, stranded on the Cross R'idge, in hazy weather, on the 5th March, and at 5.50 the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched to her assistance. On getting alongside, the master stated that he intended to try and get his vessel off at high water, and requested the Life-boat to stand by him in the meantime. With the assist- ance of two tugs, the vessel was ! refloated an hour before high water, ! and the services of the Life-boat being no longer wanted she returned ashore..