On the 23rd March, during a heavy gale of wind, the smack Elizabeth, of Cardigan, got under weigh to cross the Bar, but in doing so, her jib sheet was blown away.

She then let go her two anchors; but the chains parted, and she drifted on the Bar, where she took' the ground, the sea breaking heavily over her. Signals of distress were now shown, and the John Stuart life-boat was immediately manned and launched, and brought safely ashore the vessel's crew of 6 men. The captain stated in his deposition that they had given them- selves up for lost, and that, but for the life- boat's timely arrival, they all must in- evitably have perished. It was only by holding on firmly to the rigging that they saved themselves from being washed over- board, and this could not have lasted long, owing to the bitter cold, and the knocking about they received by the seas continually breaking over them.