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Norway

— Shortly after midnight on the 19th-20th July the steamer Norway, of Christiania, when bound from that place to Grangemouth, with a cargo of pulp and paper, and carrying eleven passengers, got out of her course and stranded off Skateraw.

The D unbar Life-saving apparatus proceeded to the scene and the Skateraw Life-boat Sarah Kay was also launched.

The latter stood by the steamer for some time, and in the course of the following afternoon landed the eleven passengers, the crew remaining on board. At high tide attempts were made to tow the vessel off, and part of the cargo was jettisoned, but the efforts proved unsuccessful and operations had to be postponed until the next tide..