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 564 FEDERAL REPORTER. �of the first storm which she encountered on the beach. By keeping a taut cable that night by meaus of the capstan and rope and pul- lies, they probably saved her from sinking hopelessly into the sand. By continuing to heave upon the cable afterwards, they gradually, after a few days, brought her stem around until she h ad attained a position approximately at right angles with the shore, across the course of the currents that run along the beach. When their hawser was first made fast, the ship was lying within 75 yards of low-water mark, and 150 yards inside the outer reef, and of the Une of break- ers 100 to 150 yards wide beyond. �On Saturday, the 6th, and every day afterwards until Friday, the I2th, the sea was too rough for any of the wrecking steamers or schooners to coma along-side of the Sandringham ; either because of rough weather or of the ocean swells that prevailed. Up to the night of the tenth of November no success had attended the efforts of the wreckers to pull the ship from her position on the beach. On that night she encountered a second storm, a heavy wind and sea striking her from the south-east at 11 p. m. In consequence of the current then cutting the sand from under her port aide, she took a consider- able list towards the shore, and was in danger throughout the night of going over on her beam ends. The wreckers had to apply them- selves with great energy and determination to the task of breaking up the cotton between decks, and moving it from the lower or port to the starboard side of the ship, in order to keep her from capsizing. By dint of hard work, continued through most of the night, they suc- ceeded in sufficiently righting the ship to save her from the danger of capsizing. The weather had been more or less rough all day on the lOth, so that no cotton could be taken out of the ship even in surf-boats. On the llth it had sufficiently moderated to admit of the resumption of operation with the surf-boats. On the 12th the sea was smooth enough for the wrecking schoonera and steamers to corne along-side the ship, so that on that day as many as 476 baies were put off, or nearly as many as had been saved in the whole period of five days preceding in surf-boats. �By the night of the 12th the whole quantity of cotton which had been removed amounted to 1,049 baies, which, the leakage having been stopped and the ballast tank having been emptied, so lightened the ship as to give strong hope of getting her afloat. The 1,049 baies of cotton which were removed from the ship were all taken either from the upper deok or from between-decks. It is not true, as the ��� �