On the 29th January, the schooner Atkol, of Ardrossan, was observed riding heavily between Irvine and Lady's Isle. The wind was blowing from the N.W., with heavy squalls and showers of rain.

The Pringle Kidd life-boat put off and found the vessel ia a disabled state, all her sails, gear, &c., being adrift. Some of the life- boat men boarded her, and her best cable just then snapping, the other was slipped, and the schooner and her crew of 3 men.

were taken safely into Troon harbour.