was thought to Dover. The first-name three had taken the precaution to throw off their clothes ere they left the vessel, and it was, perhaps fortunate for them that they did so, as they had proceeded but a short distance from the sunken vessel when their frail boat was swamped, and its occupants were obliged to swim back to the ship and there cling to the unsubmerged portion until assistance arrived. Having afterwards been saved by the boat which put off from the brigantine the poor fellows were conveyed in a state of nudity to that vessel and were humanely supplied with some articles of clothing, after which they were brought ashore. The questions put to the distressed sailors by a gentleman who acted as interpreter, elicited the following:- The lost vessel was a new one, of 120 tons burthen, laden with coal from Sunderland and bound for a French port to which she belonged. It was uninsured, and the captain held shares to the amount of £1000, all the capital he possessed, and which, with his clothes and other articles he had thus been deprived of. It was otherwise fortunate that the event occurred in the day time and that assistance was promptly rendered, or, like the vessel itself, the crew might have sunk to the bottom of the sea.
The Vessel Raised. The schooner Louise – that being her name – was raised or weighed on the 7th of August, by a Hastings vessel and one from Ramsgate, but after being towed a mile to the eastward, in a strong wind, she again sank.
Weighed Again was the French schooner Louise, and this time successfully, so that after two months immersion, she was able to be brought to within a short distance of the Marine parade, at Hastings, on the 22nd of Hastings(sic), where she became an object of interest.
Re-launched. Mr. C. T. How, of St. Leonards, having purchased the French schooner, Louise, and placed her in the hands of Messrs. Kent to be repaired and refitted, that work was accomplished , and on Saturday, the 23rd of November, she was launched from the Hastings stade in presence of a great number of persons, and sailed away for Wales.
Wreck of the “Midge” On Friday, Sept. 13th, as the schooner “Midge”, belonging to Mr. S. Putland, of St. Leonards was being hauled off, after discharging a freight of coals, the hawser snapped asunder, and the vessel returned to the beach, broadside on. Fears were entertained that the stranded vessel would be washed over the contiguous groyne and become a wreck, but with judicious management such a catastrophe was averted, at least for a time. Yet, even then the waves broke over her with such terrific force as to render her position anything but safe. On the recession of the tide most of her rigging and loose gear was re-
