The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-05 00:00:00

THE REC'ENT STORM.

GREAT YARMOUTH, Wednesday.
The George Kendall, which was lost on the Cross
Sand early on Tuesday morning, and which was the
indirect cause of the dreadful disaster at Gorleston,
was a full rigged ship of 1,300 tons. She was of
and from Liverpool to Hull with a cargo of cotton
seed, &c., and was commanded by Captain Hurst.
One of the owners, Mr. Gibson, a young man about
23 years of age, was ifirboard. There was a crew,
including the captain, of 22 haods. All•-the crew,
with Mr. Gibson, were in the lifeboat when it
capsized. Six of the life-boatsmen and 19 of the
crew of the ship were drowned—in all 25 souls.
Among those lost are Captain Hurst, Mr.
Gibson, the mate (a foreigner), the steward,
and most of the seamen. The men saved were
Henry Heath, William Harrold, Jaants Best, and
Henry Smith. The six Gorleston men lost were T.
Morley, leaving a wife and four children ; J. Leg-
gett, single ; N. S. Spurgeon, wife, and one child ;
C. Hannant, wife, and one child ; W. Moss, wife,
and three children ; and T. Sheen, wife, and four
children. In addition to the body of Sheen, already
reported as picked up, another body washed ashore
on Tuesday morning, but it has not yet been identi-
fied. The body of a well-attired man, supposed to
be that of Captain Hurst, has been driven on to the
beach near Lowestoft. In the pockets of the de-
ceased were several sovereigns and other moneys.
It is asserted that great carelessness was exhibited
i❑ the management of the fishing lugger, otherwise
the catastrophe might have been avoided.

LOWESTOFT, Tuesday.

The brig Queen Victoria, Mitchell, of Shields,
for London with coals, was driven on the Barnand
Sand this afternoon and soon went to pieces. The
crew, eight in number, were all drowned, with
the exception of Simon Temple, carpenter, who was
saved by the Pakefield lifeboat. The Kessingland
lifeboat was also launched, but was unable to save
any of the crew. Both boats had great difficulty
in getting off, owing to the boisterous state of the
weather.

SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE, Tuesday.
The Birmingham No. 1 lifeboat on this station
has again performed a very arduous and successful
service. Yesterday the lifeboat's crew were for-
tunately assembled, the gale which had been blow-
ing with great violence being then at its height.
About noon a large brig was seen drifting along
the coast to the northward in a very disabled
condition, her mainmast gone, the whole of the
remaining sails blown to atoms and fluttering in the
wind, and signals of distress flying in the rigging.
The life-boat was launched in the most tremendous
sea that has ever been seen off the coast. It was a
long and arduous task to pull through the surf, but
it brought out the good qualities of both men and
boat in a most admirable manner. So huge were
the billows that the boat was often completely lost
to sight. At last sail was got on theboa4an'fl she
started gallantly in pursuit of the distressed brig.
It was a most interesting and heartrending sight to
see the chase---a race truly of life and death. The
ship at last struck on a jutting point of land off
Ingold Mills, about 10 miles distant from Sutton,
just as the boat overtook her. A communication
was then effected between the ship and the life-
boat, and the crew of seven men were rescued and
brought safely ashore in an exhausted state, and
were very thankful for the help of the lifeboat.
The ship proved to be the Clarinda, of
Sunderland, and was bound to that port from
Ostend in ballast, and she had been overtaken by
the gale on Sunday when off Hartlepool. She was
thoroughly disabled, and has since broken away
and driven completely ought of sight.
The lifeboats of the Institution at Margate, Holy
Island and North Sunderland (Northumberland),
Withernsea (Yorkshire), Theddlethorpe (Lincoln-
shire), Blakeuey and Yarmouth (Norfolk), Lowes-
toft and Kessingland (Suffolk), Rye (Sussex), and
Fishguard (South Wales), have also been out with
the view of rendering assistance to the crews of dis-
tressed vessels. It will be observed that the life-
boats of this Institution have been incessantly en-
gaged, night and day, during the recent heavy gales,
and they have rescued nearly 200 persons from
various shipwrecks.