Part 50 (1/2)

Dec. 6th. Intense frost. Every street and road one ma.s.s of ice, and so smooth and slippery as to render walking upright impossible. Several accidents occurred to people and horses.

Dec. 9th. The smack ”Friends.h.i.+p,” value 400, lost in the North Sea.

Dec. 10th. The new steamer ”South Tyne” stranded on North Scroby Sand.

She was got off the next morning after 100 tons of coal had been thrown overboard. Salvage services amounted to 1,000.

Dec. 11th. The market tolls, &c., were let by public compet.i.tion by Mr.

S. Aldred for 890 per annum. (See Aug. 21st, 1876.)

Dec. 15th. The smack ”Dagmar” on fire in the harbour. Much damaged.

Dec. 19th. The smack ”Emma,” valued at 300, totally destroyed by fire while in the North Sea. Crew rescued.

Dec. 19th. The screw collier ”Magdeburg” struck on Scroby Sand, but was got off by the steam tug ”Reliance” for 200.

Dec. In the 2nd Norfolk Rifle Volunteers in 1871 there were in the five companies 11 officers, 22 sergeants, and 460 men, 87 of whom were marksmen.

The 600 fis.h.i.+ng craft belonging to this port pay annually for towage about 4,000.

A new Primitive Methodist Chapel opened at Bradwell.

Mr. J. T. Clarke, solicitor, appointed a Commissioner to administer oaths in the High Court of Admiralty in England.

Two hundred and forty millions of herring landed at the Fish Wharf during the whole of the present season.

The number of s.h.i.+pwrecked men received during the year at the Sailors'

Home was 228.

A whiting measuring 26 inches caught on the coast.

1872.

Jan. 1st, The barque ”Sing Tai” (Rising Sun), 500 tons, launched from Messrs. Beeching's s.h.i.+pyard.

Jan. 1st. The brigantine ”Sybil,” belonging to Mr. H. H. Gambling, while entering the harbour got on the North Sand, and was wrecked. Value, 400.

Jan. 3rd. Rear-Admiral Charles Calmady Dent, of Yarmouth, died. (See April 4th.)

Jan. 5th. Sir Francis Crossley, Bart., M.P., of Somerleyton Hall, died at Belle Vue, Halifax, aged 54 years.

Jan. 10th. First prosecution for Sunday trading inst.i.tuted, the magistrates fining two delinquents-Messrs. Duffell-5s. each and costs.

This continued weekly for over five years.

Jan. 12th. Restoration of Gorleston Church mooted. On May 15th Mr.

Hubbard's (East Dereham) contract of 2,642 accepted. (See June 12th, 1873.)

Jan. 16th. Loyal addresses voted by the Council to the Queen on the recovery of the Prince of Wales from a severe illness; also congratulatory addresses to the Prince and Princess.

Jan. 17th. Gallant lifeboat service by the Caister beachmen during a heavy gale, in the preservation of the barque ”Jessie,” and the whole of her crew.