Early on the morning of the 11th April, during a heavy gale of wind from W.N.W., the Robert William life-boat proceeded to the rescue of the crews of two vessels in distress off this place. On reaching the nearest vessel—the barque H. L. Routh, of New York—the life-boat put a pilot on board, and as she was in no great danger, the boat went on to the barque Susan L, Campbell, of Weigh- mouth, Nova Scotia, which was evidently becoming a total wreck on the Salthouse Bank. On arriving alongside, after nearly three hours' hard conflict with tremendous breakers, the whole of the crew of 14 men were safely got into the life-boat. Owing to the ebbing of the tide, however, on the banks, and the unabated fury of the surf, the life-boat could not land at Blackpool, and was obliged to run before the sea to Lytham, and there land the shipwrecked sailors. The H. L. Routk fortunately suc- ceeded in getting off the bank, and with the assistance of the Lytham life-boat, which had also put off, and the weather subsequently moderating, she got out of danger. The Blackpool and Lytham life-boats were re- ported to have behaved admirably through- out these gallant services.