About ten o'clock on the night of the 21st October, during foul weather and in a thick fog, analarm was given that a vessel was in dis- tress off Polurrian Cove, about a mile and a half from the life-boat station. The Daniel J. Draper life-boat was immediately launched, and was fortunately the means of rescuing three of the crew of the stranded vesse], which proved to be the barque Achilles, of Glasgow, bound from Mi- ramichi to London with a cargo of timber.

The Coastguardmen, who were the first to see the distressed vessel, had before the arrival of the life-boat been able to save the remainder of the crew by meaus of the rocket apparatus..