On the 19th January, at 10 P.M., the schooner Thetis, of London, foundered 5 miles off St. Catherine's Point, on the south coast of the Isle of Wight. Her crew, 4 in number, took to their boat, and on the fol- lowing morning, between 8 and 9 o'clock, they were fortunately descried from the shore, when the Brighstone Grange life-boat was promptly launched through a heavy surf to their aid, and taking them out of their boat, brought them safely to the land. When rescued, they were in an exhausted state, and their boat soon afterwards capsized.

They would undoubtedly have perished had they not been rescued by the life-boat from their perilous position.