On the 20th October, a large ship was observed to be stranded on the Blackwater Bank, when the Cahore life-boat was again brought into requisition. Before reaching the bank, the ship was observed to have got off and to make sail to the southward; a boat was, however, seen, with one man only in her, in an unmanageable state. On boarding her, it was learnt from him that she was a boat which, with five hands, had pro- ceeded from the shore to the aid of the ship ; that the latter was the American ship A. Z., bound from Liverpool to New York; that the captain had availed himself of the services of his four companions, but that he was left in the boat in tow astern; that the tow-rope breaking, he was left adrift in the boat, which, being a landsman, he was unable to manage, and that the captain would not stop the ship to pick him up.

As the boat was fast drifting out to sea, the poor fellow's life would probably have been sacrificed had he not been rescued by the life-boat. It eventually turned out that the captain of the A. Z., after treating the four men, who had helped him, in the most unjustifiable and cruel manner, put them into a pilot-boat off Cork without payment for the valuable services which they had ren- dered him, and leaving them to find their way, penniless, to their homes, proceeded on his voyage.