Early on the morning of the 4th August, during a heavy gale from the W.S.W., the Wakefield life- boat at this place went off in reply to signals of distress from a vessel which was reported to have struck on the Salt house Bank. On the bank being neared, however, the vessel was observed standing away to the north- ward, having been favoured by the backing of the wind. At this time a French brigan- tine, the Jeune Francois, of Nantes, was observed running in with a flag of distress flying, and the life-boat at once proceeded to her assistance. With the aid of some of the life-boat men, the vessel was brought to a comparatively safe anchorage.