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A Steamer (1)

JANUARY 5TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

A steamer had gone ashore ten days before, one of the salvage vessels had also gone ashore, and the life-boat was asked to take the naval salvage officer from a tug to this vessel, but the seas were so heavy that the life-boat might have been damaged, and the coxswain would not take the risk as lives were not in danger. - Paid permanent crew..