On the 26th December the Life-boat Queensbury was instructed to put to sea with all haste as a steamer named the Leersum, of Amsterdam, carrying a crew of nineteen hands, had struck a mine and foundered four miles S.E. off Scar- borough. The steamer was bound from Rotterdam to Newcastle with a general cargo at the time. Fortunately the Life-boat fell in with two of the ship's boats containing seventeen of the crew of the wrecked vessel, who reported that when the vessel was mined the other men were drowned. The Life- boat took the men on board and conveyed them in safety to Scarborough..