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was just off the land, and the Success came ashore within 

 two miles of Yarmouth. Five men who went off in a 

 boat were drowned ; but all the people in the Success 

 were saved. The ship herself was broken to pieces, and 

 most of the herrings were lost ; but the greater part of 

 the lead was saved, and some of the guns. 



Long years after that particular Success came to grief 

 I saw another old-world vessel with the same name off 

 the east coast. I had gone seaward down the Valley 

 at Scarborough, and there, in the South Bay, I set eyes 

 upon her a phantom-like vessel that surely had no 

 business on the ocean. I hurried to the harbour, and 

 discovered that the freak was the old convict ship Success, 

 which, despite her century of age, had worked her own 

 way, under her own sail, from Australia to England, and 

 had done the trip in almost clipper time four months. 



So far back as 1669 the question was being con- 

 sidered of building lighthouses on the east coast. A 

 double lighthouse was proposed at St. Nicholas' Gatt, 

 and lighthouses at Cromer, Flamborough Head, and on 

 Fame Island. A licence was granted to Sir John 

 Clayton and George Blake to build these structures, and 

 to receive, " by way of voluntary contributions and not 

 otherwise," towards their maintenance, any sum not 

 exceeding the following rates : " For every loaden ship 

 ijd. and id. per ton for every light ship passing by the 

 places where the lighthouses should be erected, for sixty 

 years at the yearly rent of 2os., all of which lighthouses 

 are built, but only that at St. Nicholas' Gatt is lighted." 

 There still stands on Flamborough Head, hard by the 

 lighthouse and Lloyd's Signal Station, the fine tower 

 which is called the Old Lighthouse, but concerning which 



