During a strong gale from the S.W., on the morning of the 1st De- cember, signal-guns were fired from the Gull Light Ship. The Aid steam-tug and the- Bradford life-boat were immediately got ready, and in the course of twenty mi- nutes proceeded to the Goodwin Sands.

When in the Gull stream a vessel was ob- served on shore on the high part of the sands, on her beam-ends, with the crew clinging to the rigging. The life-boat was slipped, and run on the sand about a quarter of a mile from the wreck, a heavy surf breaking over the sand and over the boat. Three of the life-boat men waded through the surf to the vessel, boarded her, and assisted the crew of 8 men out of the rigging, in an exhausted state, as they had been there about eleven hours. The 11 men then pro- ceeded to the life-boat, and after much diffi- culty, on account of the heavy sea, the anchor of the boat was weighed, and she was taken in tow of the steamer, and all returned safely to Ramsgate Harbour. The wrecked vessel was the brigantine Amor, of Elsfleth, bound from Newcastle to Genoa, with a cargo of coals and coke.

The captain of the Amor subsequently expressed, through the public Press, the thanks of himself and crew to the men who manned the-Bradford life-boat and the steam- tug Aid, for their services on the above oc- casion..