On the 13th February the Holyhead life-boat performed a valuable service by proceeding to the Portuguese brigantine Boa Nova, and the English schooner Britannia, during a strong gale from W.N.W., and putting pilots on board them, by which means they were rescued from perilous positions, and, together with their crews, were placed in safety. The Boa Nova especially, which had parted an anchor, and was fast driving towards the Clipera rocks, was in extreme peril, and would probably have been lost with all on board but for the aid thus afforded her.