Early on the morning of the 24th March, the schooner Peerless, of Aberystwith, went on shore on the Goodwin Sands, while it was blowing very hard from the W.S.W.; signal guns were fired by the Gull Stream light-ship, and the Van Kook life-boat was soon launched to the rescue. On reaching the vessel, they found the crew of 5 men and the dead body of the poor cabin-boy in the rigging. The men were all taken off in a very exhausted condition, and brought ashore by the life-boat. The Ramsgate life-boat also put off with the view of rescuing the crew of the same vessel.