On the 3rd De- cember, during a strong gale from S.S.E., and in very thick weather, the steamer Flying Mist brought information from Car- raidale, thirteen miles N.'E. of Campbeltown, N.B., that the barque William Gillies, of Greenock, was lying off there dragging her anchors and likely to go on the rocks, and that the crew could not land in the heavy sea then running, and were in danger of losing their lives. The Lord Murray life- boat was immediately manned and launched, and proceeding to the spot in tow of the tug, took off the vessel's crew of 15 men and placed them on board the steamer.

The life-boat was then again taken in tow and all returned safely to Campbeltown.

The vessel was in a very dangerous po- sition on a lee shore when the life-boat arrived alongside..