On .the night of the 30th this life- boat again put off. The ship Lillies, with 1,600 tons of coals on board, be- longing to St. John's, New Brunswick, and bound from Liverpool to Bombay, showed signals of distress off Fleetwood, when the life-boat was at once launched and proceeded to her, together with the tug steamer Wyre. The captain of the tug this time succeeded in placing her momentarily alongside the ship, when 26 of her crew and the captain's daughter were got on board.

The captain and his officers remained on board, and requested the coxswain of the life-boat to continue by them, which he did for three hours, when a heavy sea striking the ship and boat, the latter was placed in much danger and was cut adrift. They were unable then to regain the ship, and had to run for Glasson Dock, where they landed for the night, and on boarding the vessel again in the morning, found that she was deserted, the captain and his mates having been taken off by a Morecambe steamer.