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room, heard the crash and was on the diff, under 

 which the Mosel la}' fast, in two or three minutes. 

 In a few minutes more a telegram was in Falmouth, 

 begging that all available help might be sent ; and as 

 fast as the alarm could be given, and the boat launched, 

 the lifeboat crew and the coastguard from Lizard 

 Town were on the scene of disaster. 



By great good-fortune, the steam-tug Rosetta of 

 Falmouth, on the look-out for homeward - bound 

 vessels, was drifting close by. She heard the crash 

 and cries for help, and, guided by the sound, found 

 the vessel ashore. The Rosetta was alongside within 

 ten minutes of the striking of the Mosel, and con- 

 veyed the first load of passengers to Cadgwith Cove, 

 two miles off. 



When she returned to Beast Point, all but the first- 

 cabin passengers had been taken off in boats, and the 

 Rosetta took on board the rest, and landed them 

 with the mails and specie at Falmouth. The little 

 tug rescued in all two hundred and forty-seven of the 

 MoseVs passengers. 



The mails were sent by railway to Southampton, 

 and again despatched thence, the day following the 

 wreck, to New York. 



The poor vessel lay for many weeks on the rocks, 

 attempts to float her off being in vain. One day a 

 foretaste of the equinoctial gales lifted her somewhat ; 

 she parted amidships : the stern half slipped off into 

 deep water, and after awhile the fore part heeled over 

 and disappeared. That was the end of the Mosel. 



