On the 30th September, whilst the schooner Commot, of Whitby, bound from Lowestoft to Sea- ham, in ballast, was riding at anchor in Sandsend Roads, the wind suddenly changed from N.W. to N. by E., causing the vessel to part from one anchor. The master, fear- ing the vessel would drift on to the rock, slipped the remaining cable, and bore away for Whitby, where she was stranded on the sands. As soon as the danger was ob- served from the shore, the Lucy life-boat, stationed at Whitby, was launched in a heavy sea, and fortunately succeeded in taking off the vessel's crew of 4 men, and afterwards in landing them in safety.