On the 22nd of September last, at 3 A. M., the brig Jesse Anna, of Whitby, ran on the Goodwin Sands. On signals of distress being made by the light- vessels, the Ramsgate life-boat, in tow of the Harbour Commissioners' steamer Aid, proceeded to the spot, but, owing to the darkness of the night, could discern nothing of the object of their search until daylight, when their attention was drawn to it by two Deal luggers at anchor within the sand.

They then discovered the wrecked vessel lying on her beam-ends in a dismantled state, with her decks blown up, and her crew of six persons clinging to the hull, and the sea breaking over them. The steamer having cast off the life-boat, the fetter an- chored to windward of the wreck, and veered down to it through a heavy surf, when, with the aid of lines, they succeeded in getting the whole of the vessel's crew safely aboard. Sail was then made on the life-boat, after slipping her anchor, and she was afterwards again taken in tow by the •steamer, and the shipwrecked men were landed in an exhausted state at Ramsgate.

The mate of the brig had been drowned before the arrival of the life-boat. The brig became a total wreck.