The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-04 00:00:00

LOSS OF TWENTY•SI% LIVES.

GREAT YARMOUTH, MONDAY.
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This morning, during a gale from N:N.E., with
• heavy sea, the Gorleston lifeboat Rescuer went out to
the assistance of a brig on the Scroby sands. They res-
cued 17 of the crew, and were returning to the harbour,
when just as the lifeboat was about to enter, and close to
the bar, a fishing bagger, named the James and Ellen,
struck her on the quarter. The lifeboat, which was under
full sail at the time, at once capsized. The lifeboat's crew
oonsisted of 16 men. She at once turned bottom upwards.
Most of the crew orthe wrecked vessel as well as of the life-
boat, in all 26 men, were drowned. Only seven men were
saved by clinging to the capsized boat. They were
taken on board a email boat, and transferred to
the steamtag Andrew Woodhouse, which brought
them into the harbour. Most of the Gorleston men
were married, and had children depending upon them for
support. The lifeboat drifted to the beach. She was
followed by the lifeboat Refuge, which picked up one of
the men, John Sheen, aged 30 years. He wen quite dead.
The Rescuer, which belonged to a private company, was
capsized on the same spot in January, 1866, when 13
beachmen were drowned. Crowds of people, with the
wives and families of the drowned men, lined the pier at
the harbour's mouth, and as the Refuge returned the scene
was heartrending. The ill-fated boat is a salvage boat,
belonging exclusively to the beachmen of Gorleston, and
in no way connected with the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion. There ice, however, a fine self-righting lifeboat
belonging to the institution at Gorleaton, but hitherto the
headman have not made much use of it.

LIVERPOOL, TUISDAY.

The tempest which swept the east and west coasts of
England and the Irish coast has gradually subsided, but
the accounts received in Liverpool yesterday show that
although the wind has stone down the sea continues tre-
mendously high. The Lydia Williams, which went ashore
on Salt Island, near Holyhead, is likely to become a wreck,
as only a portion of the after hatch dries at low water. The
vessel is being dismantled, and nothing can be done
unless by the sasistance of divers. A brigantine, laden
with palm oil, ivory, and gold dust, is reported, under
date of Galway, Dec. I, to be on shore on Sheep Island,
having been driven on to the land during a gale on the
29th. The gunboat Whiting had left Galway to assist her.
The Smyrna, from °dens, is reported ashore at Hull,
and two tugs had been despatched to her assistance. The
schooner Scotland, from Chester for Swansea, got
on the shore at the end of the Holyhead breakwater,
and soon became • total wreck. The master and two
nen were taken off the wreck by Mr. Rigby's men, one of
whom died from exhaustion on landing. The body of a
coy, supposed to have belonged to the Scotland, had been
washed ashore. The Richard Jackson, from the Ilediter
rsinean, is reported ashore at Boulby, and the Erin of
Dublin is o wreck in Belfsst Lough. The Urgent, of
Newry, from Toronto to Portaferry, is ashore in Bangor
Bay, and the schooner Mary sunk at 'Whitstable. Two
vessels from Taganrog, the Chemises for Marseilles, and
the Victory for Shields are reported to have foundered
near Malta. The Hornet, from Newhaven to Sunderland,
has been abandoned off Bridlington. The Paquebot de
Brest, No. 3, and the Jeanne Adeline, have been wrecked at
Bideford, and the brig Derwent, from Rotterdam to (islets,
has been lost in the Gulf of Coron. The American ship
Arabian, bound from Bremen to the Tyne, seen off Shields
on tho 26th November, has not since been heard of.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUISDAY EVE-VINO.

The weather baa been very bad on the coast of
France. The Channel Island mail steamer due here last
night has not yet arrived. The Havre packet due here
early this morning did not arrive before noon to-day.
The St. Melo packet due here also early this morning did
not arrive. The Indian mail packet Sumatra which
arrived here to-day from Alexandria experienced most
frightful weather at the entrance of the channel. She was
FS hours making 20 miles. The wind blew &strongest from
the north-west. A seaman was blown out of the rigging into
the sea and drowned. The Sumatra proved a splendid
see boat, but at times she was in fearful peril owing to the
violence of the wind and the terrible sea she encountered.