ON the afternoon of 29th October, a steamer arriving at Kingstown, on the south side of Dublin Bay, reported that a ship had gone ashore. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea.

The Motor Life-boat was launched, and when she got out of the harbour, a ship was seen being driven towards the north shore of the Bay. She was the sailing ship Hamburg, of Hamburg, a vessel of nearly 2000 tons, which had left Australia with a cargo of wheat on 29th May, on her way to Cork. She had put into Falmouth, and on leaving there had met with very heavy weather, with south-westerly winds, had been driven northwards, and made for Dublin.

When the Life-boat reached her she was aground, so the Coxswain brought the Life-boat alongside, and the 46 men on board, and the ship's cat, were taken off.

The Hamburg is a training ship for the Mercantile Marine, and, besides her complement of officers and crew, carried a large number of apprentices. Three weeks later she was got off the sands and towed into Dublin. Her owners, Messrs.

Hans Heinrich Schmidt, sent the Institution ten guineas "in sincere appreciation of its merits.".