In a strong N. wind on the 18th July the hull of a new steamer—the Time, built for Melbourne—was being towed from the shipbuilder's yard to West Hartlepool in order to have her engines fitted. The hawsers carried away and the Time was driven by the wind close to the Long Scar Rocks. Her anchor was let go and signals of distress were made. In response one of the Life-boats from Hartlepool and the Francis Whitbourn, from Seaton Carew, were launched. The Hartlepool No. 2 boat could not reach the vessel, but the Seaton Carew boat succeeded and rescued the sixteen men on board. As the flood tide made very rapidly the Time broke adrift and drove high up on to the beach to the south of the village. ..