Brouwershaven, Netherlands, 8 October. Yesterday evening around 17.30 o’clock was the tiding received that a ship was in big problems off the outer banks. Both available lifeboats the Willem van Houten and the Schokker No. 2 were however in the latest storms damaged the first losing the bowsprit and the second her mast and were not available. Sailors of both crews assisted by other sailors take the iron lifeboat of Brouwershaven to the beach at the West side of the island but found the beach there covered with pieces of wreckage and were told by the beach watchers that the ship (a so-called pleit) around 17.00 o’clock almost directly after she was stranded on the Nieuwe Zand was lost with all men on board. The stormy wind from the North West was accompanied by continuous heavy showers and a high sea.
