The gales last week have caused considerable damage to the
ship- ping on the coast, and in some instances lives have been lost. The following extract from a letter dated the 18th instant, from Scar- borough, gives some details of the effects of the storm off that port- " Yesterday, about eight o'clock in the morning, the sea being very stormy, with a north-east wind, the lifeboat was manned whit a crew of fifteen young men, to render assistance to a sloop, which had made its appearance limn behind the Castle Hill, and had dropped its anchor near the pier-eud. The life-boat had not got out far when a huge breaker turned it over, and immersed all its crew in the sea. Of these, eleven are lost ; three were saved by keeping their hold of the boat underneath it, for it was turned upside-down, and one by holding on the keel and sitting upon it There are two large air-holes iu the bottom of the life-boat, through which the men underneath contrived to breathe till they were rescued from their perilous situation. In about half-an-hour a fishing-boat reached them, and brought them to land. In the mean time the crew of the sloop, seeing the accident that had happened to the life-boat, and knowing now that no help could reach them, slipped their anchor, and ran on the west rocks, about half-a-mile south of the spa. They succeeded, by Captain Manby's apparatus, in 'edging a rope on the rigging of the sloop, by firing it from the shore from a mortar ; and thus the crew were saved, on get- ting into their ship's boat, which was dragged to shore by a zealous and rejoic- ing multitude. About twelve o'clock, a schooner was seen, a little to the cast of the harbour: but soon went down, for by that time the sea was raging in a most awful manner—it was impossible that any vessel should live in such waves."
The damage done to houses, shops, and other property in the town, is also very considerable. The tide was the highest ever known in Scarborough.
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