On the 30th of December last, at 3-30 p.m., the schooner Agenaria, of Bideford, when running in a crippled state for the harbour of Tenby, during a strong S.E. gale, broached-to, and was driven on shore on the south side of the port. The life-boat was, with much exertion on the part of her crew, got out of the harbour, and succeeded, in the midst of a heavy sea, in rescuing the crew, three in number; the mate of the schooner having been washed overboard in the morning.

The Agenoria shortly afterwards broke up.

At 10 p.m. on the same evening intelli- gence was received that another vessel was on shore near Gilter Point, two miles south of Tenby. The life-boat was again launched, in the words of our report, "amidst a fear- ful succession of broken seas, but with undaunted courage and untiring energy, the crew fought against it, and at length suc- ceeded in reaching the wreck (which proved to be the schooner Alexandre, of Nantes), and in rescuing at about midnight five hands, quite exhausted, one- a lad, appa- rently lifeless. The line which held them to the wreck breaking, the life-boat parted from her, but, learning that a little boy was left on board below, by dint of great exertion they succeeded in reaching her again, and in rescuing the little fellow, who had to be brought by force from the cabin and placed in the boat." The whole of the crew were then landed in safety, and the wreck scon after went to pieces. When it is considered that this service took place in the night, in a heavy gale, with squalls of snow, a more gallant service cannot well be conceived, more especially as the crew had no previous experience of the life-boat, which had just returned from London, after undergoing extensive alterations. Lieutenant RICHARD JESSE, R.N., in command of the Coast-guard at Tenby, took charge of the life-boat on each of the above occasions; but his modesty prevented his naming the same in his official report of the circumstances, and the Com- mittee of this Institution only incidentally afterwards learned of his having done so from other sources. The Institution awarded him its silver medal, and the crew received 11. each for the night service, and 10s. each for the previous one in the daytime. The very efficient coxswain of the life-boat, ROBERT PARROTT, chief boatman of Coast- guard, was also shortly afterwards awarded the silver medal of the Institution for his general services on the above and other previous occasions. The behaviour of the life-boat on the occasion was reported to be admirable.