OCT. 23RD. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 1.45 P.M. the signal station reported that a vessel was ashore on the Shoebury Sands. The weather was calm, and the sea smooth. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched, and found the S.S. Copeland, of Glasgow, a vessel of 1,500 tons, aground.

The life-boat stood by until she refloated, and then returned to her station at 9.30 P.M.- Rewards, £28..