About 7 o'clock on the evening of the 9th October, two guns were fired and rockets thrown up from the Cockle Float- ing light. The night was dark and rainy, with a strong wind and a heavy sea on the beach. The Caister life-boat was launched without a moment's delay, and, on the way to the light-ship, fell in with the brig Kath- leen, of Hartlepool, at anchor close by the breakers of the Cockle Sand. The vessel had run foul of the floating light, which in the collision had carried away a part of her bulwarks and her port-main rigging. The beachmen, after much difficulty, succeeded in getting close to the vessel, and having put 6 of their crew on board, slipped her anchor and succeeded in taking her over the north end of the Sands, and ultimately in bringing her up in Hemsby Hole, where they cast anchor and waited for daybreak.

The life-boat, with the remainder of her crew on board, followed, being towed by the ship. The peril of the life-boat was great in this service, and the men's courage and resolution, when she was towed by the Kathleen, were much tried. The rush of the ship, while dashed along by the sea, and pitched at times nearly on her beam ends, pulled the boat close on the vessel, partially submerging her bows at times in the water, so that the men (both the beachmen in the ship and her crew) were on such occasions more afraid for the life-boat and her crew than for themselves. But the spring of the boat drew her up from her submersions: the men calmly and steadily kept their seats, and cleared her off the vessel; and their con- fidence in the boat, as well as admiration of her qualifications, was great. When the col- lision took place, three out of six of the ves- sel's crew jumped on board the floating-light, and in the morning the life-boat went off again to the light-ship, and brought the 3 men ashore. One of them had his foot severely crushed, the result of the previous night's catastrophe.

The above services complete the glorious career of the Caister old life-boat, built about eighteen years ago, which, since.