r Yarmouth
beach. Here the shipwrecked crew were hospitably received at the
Sailors' Home.

Again, on the 1st of November, the screw-steamer _Shamrock_, of Dublin,
ran on shore on the Holme Sand during a heavy gale from the south-west.
As soon as the position of the unfortunate vessel was discovered, the
lifeboat was launched, and proceeded under sail to the spot. The sea
was breaking fearfully over the mast-head of the steamer, repeatedly
filling the lifeboat. To increase the danger, an expanse of shoal-water
lay close to leeward of the wreck, so that had the lifeboat's cable
parted, her destruction and that of her crew might have followed. Fully
aware of the risk they ran, they persevered, as brave men will, in spite
of danger to themselves; and, sending lines on board the wreck, the
whole crew, not without considerable difficulty, were hauled on board.

BRAVERY OF JOSEPH ROGERS, A MALTESE SEAMAN--25TH OCTOBER 1859.

No one will forget the dreadful loss of the _Royal Charter_ on the Welsh
coast, when, out of 490 souls on board, not more than 25 persons came on
shore alive; but many may not recollect that it was owing, under
Providence, to the bravery, presence of mind, and strength of one man
that even these few were saved. When the ship struck on the rocks, the
sea instantly broke over her with fearful violence, filling the
intermediate space between her and the shore with broken spars and
fragments of the wreck; while the waves burst with fury on the hard
rocks, and then rushed back again, to hurl with redoubled force on the
iron shore the objects which they had gathered up in their forward
course. Pitchy darkness added to the horror of the scene and the danger
to be encountered by the hapless passengers and crew of the ill-fated
ship. Among the ship's company was a Maltese, Joseph Rogers--a
first-rate swimmer, as are many of the inhabitants of the island in
which he was born. To attempt to swim on shore in that boiling caldron
was full of danger, though he might have felt that he could accomplish
it; but the difficulty and danger would be far greater should the
swimmer's progress be impeded by a rope. In spite of that, thinking
only how he might save the lives of those on board the ship to which he
belonged, taking a line in hand, he plunged boldly into the foaming sea.
On he swam; the darkness prevented him from being seen, but those on
board felt the rope gradually hauled out. Anxiously all watched th