On the 26th De- cember, 1860, the brigantine -Owit^ of Fredeficfcshamn, from Bordeaux, laden wtft wteat and brandy, struck on a reef of fockd in Ardmore Bay, the wind blowing & gale from S.E. The Ardmore life-boat was soon manned by a crew of Coastguard-men and fishermen, a gentleman named JOHN RODERICK taking a vacant oar ; the surf was stated to have been very heavy at the time, and great credit was attached to those whd manned the life-boat : all their efforts, however, to reach the vessel failed, the boat filling with the Surfs, bat quickly relieving herself again of them.

The crew of the wrecked vessel then veered « small boat to the shore by a imej which, although it swamped when near the shore, yet was carried near enough to it to enable the persons on the beach to reach it by wad- ing into the surf. Thereupon the coxswain of the life-boat, finding they tottki not pro- gress tmdet oargj returned tb th« shore, and the line froin the vessel being made fast to the boW of the life-boat arid a rocket line to her stern; she was hauled off to the wreck bj the creW of the latter. Seven of the crew were got into her with difficulty, there being a fearful sea breaking over her, which risked the destruction of the boat against her sides, when the rope being cut, She was hauled to the shore by the persotis on the beach, land- ing the unfortunate men in safety. One of the vessel's crew, in the confusion, was left on board the wreck ; but the vessel being driven nearer to the beach by the rising tide, he presently threw himself into the sea, with a small raft, on which he managed to retain Md until driven tear enough to the beftcfo to be grappled bj parties going into tine SurfWi his aid*.