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‘a boat upon that plan. After it was 
built, it was with some difficulty that 
‘the sailors were induced to go off 
in her ; but, in consequence of a re- 
ward offered, they went off, and 
brought the crew of a stranded ves- 
sel onshore. Since which time the 
boat has been readily manned, and 
no lives lost (except in the instances 
of the crew trusting to their own 
boats); and, in his opinion, if Mr. 
Greathead’s boat had existed at the 
time of the wreck of the Adventure, 
the crew would have been saved. 
From other accounts it appears, 
that, in the year 1791, the crew of 
a brig, belonging to Sunderland, 
and laden from the westward, were 
preserved by this life-boat, the ves- 
sel at the same time breaking to 
pieces by the force of the sea. 
On January Ist, 1795, the ship 
Parthenius, of Newcastle, was dri- 
yen on the Herd Sands, and the life 
boat went to her assistance, when 
the sea breaking over the ship, as 
the boat was ranging alongside, the 
boat was so violently shaken that 
her bottom was hanging loose; un- 
-der these circumstances, she went 
‘three times off to the ship, without 
being affeéted by the water in her. 
In the latter part of the year 
1796, a sloop, belonging to Mr. 
Brymer, from Scotland, laden with 
bale goods, was wrecked on the 
} Herd Sands ; the crew and passen- 
gers were taken out by the life-boat ; 
the vessel] went to pieces at the time 
| the boat was employed, the goods 
were scattered on the sand, and part 
of them lost. 
In the same year, a vessel, named 
the Countess of Krrol, was driven 
on the Herd Sands, and the crew sav- 
ed by the life-boat. 
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the sloop 
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called Fruit of Friends, from Leith, 
comig to South Shields, was driven 
on the Herd Sands. One part of the 
passengers, in attempting to come on 
shore in the ship’s-boat, was wnfor- 
tunately drowned; the other part 
was brought on shore safe by the 
life-boat. 
The account of captain William 
Carter, of Newcastle, states, that, on 
the 28th November, 1797, the ship 
Planter, of London, was driven on 
shore near Tynemouth-Bar, by the 
violence of a gale; the life-boat 
came out, and took fifteen persons 
from the ship, which the boat had 
scarcely quitted before the ship went 
to pieces ; and that without the boat 
they must all have inevitably pe- 
rished, as the wreck came on shore 
soon after the life-boat. He con- 
ceived that no boat of a common 
construction could have given re- 
lief at that time. ‘The ships Gates- 
head, and Mary, of Newcastle, the 
Beaver, of North Shields, and a 
sloop, were in the same situation 
with the Planter. The crew of the 
Gateshead, nine in number, took to 
their own boat, which sunk, and 
seven of them were lost; the other 
two saved themselves by ropes 
thrown from the Mary. After the 
life-boat had landed the crew of the 
Planter, she went off successively 
to the other vessels, and brought 
the whole of the crews safe to shore, 
together with the two persons who 
had escaped from the boat of the 
Gateshead. 
Mr. Carter adds, that he has seen 
the life-hoat go to the assistance of 
other vessels, at different times, and 
she ever succeeded in bringing the 
crews safe to shore; that he had 
several times observed her come on 
shore full of water, aud always safe. 
3H Account 
