Dutch galliot, Aremana, having got embayed in Whitesand Bay, near the port of Ply- mouth, let go her anchor, which not holding, she was fast driving towards the shore, when her dangerous situation having been made known to the Government authorities at Plymouth, the Queen's Harbour - Master, Commander J. R. AYLEN, R.N., at once pro- ceeded to her assistance in H. M. Steam-tug Confianoe, taking the life-boat in tow. On arriving at the vessel, 2\ miles N.W. of the Rame Head, the life-boat performed essential service by effecting a communication, through the surf, with the distressed vessel, which was thus enabled to be taken in tow by the steamer, and conveyed safely into port. This was the first service of this life-boat, the cost of which had been a few months pre- viously presented to the Institution by Miss BURDETT COUTTS.