The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-06 00:00:00

THE LA7E GALE.-LOSS OF TWENTY
MORE LIVES.

During the latter part of the past week the wea-
ther has been very stormy at Great Yarmouth
(writes a correspondent), with heavy rains. On
Saturday it came on to blow with great violence
from the W.N.W., and at noon it increased to a
perfect hurricane, such as has not been equalled on
this coast since the disastrous gale of May 28, 1860,
when nine vessels went down in sight of land, and
fourteen fishing luggers, with all hands, were lost
outside. Great apprehensions were entertained for
the boats now at sea, a large fleet of which were
prosecuting the herring voyage, and some of thoso
which came in on Sunday gave sad confirmation to
forebodings on the beach by reporting the loss of
two ]uggers and their crews. One boat reports
that on Saturday afternoon, while scudding before
the gale, about forty miles outside, she saw within
a quarter of a mile ahead of her a lugger marked
" Y.H." (Yarmouth) go down with all hands, and
on passing over the spot one of the crew of the un-
fortunate vessel was seen clinging to the wreck, but
owing to the tremendous sea running, which was
expected momentarily to overwhelm the lugger, no
assistance could be rendered to the poor fellow.
Another boat reports the loss of a Sherringham lug-
ger, which was seen to disappear with all hands in
a terrific sea. As these vessels are manned by
nine men and a boy, twenty souls must have
perished. The storm raged on Sunday,
but with partially abated violence, and
the wind having shifted to the north, a large fleet
of vessels were driven back into these roads for
shelter ; on Sunday night there must have been
some thousands, extending from Caistor to Lowes-
toft, a distance of 13 miles. Many have been obliged
to put into harbour with masts gone, sails split,
rigging carried away, or damage of some sort.
During the night the smack Adventurer, of Har-
wich, parted her anchors, and was carried on to
the North Sand, where they were rescued by the
lifeboat from a position of the utmost peril, and
were taken to the Sailors' Home. It is feared that
the shipping reports on this coast will contain a
long list of casualties.

THE RECENT GALE AT LIVERPOOL.—One of the
incidents of the recent gale has brought to light
considerable gallantry on the part of four boatmen,
who, at the imminent risk of their lives, took a
small gig to the rescue of the crew of a schooner
which had sunk near to the entrance of the Queen's
Channel, at the mouth of the Mersey. The schooner
was the Widnes, of Ulverstone, from BarroW, bound
to Liverpool with a cargo of iron ore. In connec-
tion with this subject it may also be of interest to
notice that a numerous and influential meeting
was held at New Brighton, near Liverpool, on
Monday evening, in order to take steps for the
establishment of a lifeboat at that place. During
the meeting the services rendered on a recent
occasion by Mr. Henry Norton, of Liverpool, in
rescuing a number of excursionists who had
been stranded not far from Hoylake, were pro-
minently alluded to, and it was proposed that the
New Brighton lifeboat should be named the Henry
Norton. It was also proposed that a communica-
tion shmild be made to the Mersey Dock Board,
with a view to see if they would support the life-
boat establishment, and if they were unwilling to
do so, that the residents should maintain it them-
selves.

WRECK OF A SCHOONER AND SUPPOSED Loss
OF ALL ON BOARD.—lntelligence has been received
at Liverpool to the effect that early yesterday
morning a schooner went down when off Taylor's
Bank, at the entrance to the Mersey. During the
day a seaman's chest was washed ashore at Water-
loo. On opening it, in addition to clothes and
other articles, was found a Manx almanac, in which
was written, " John Gibson, Saltney ; John Davies,
Greenfield, Holywell." No tidings have yet been.
heard of the crew of the wrecked schooner, and the
general opinion is that they have all perished.
The chest washed on shore at Waterloo is supposed
to have belonged to some one on board the ill-fated
schooner.