Again, on the 15th Jan., 1869, this life- boat put off, during a W.N.W. gale, and in j a very heavy sea, to the brigantine Thomas, < of Poole, which was near Stepper Point in | imminent danger. On arriving alongside, it was found she had on board, in addition to her own crew, eight men belonging to a shore-boat which had gone off to the vessel and been capsized by the tremendous seas.

Without delay the life-boat took off the fourteen men from the brigantine, which went on the Doom Bar, and became a total wreck. The poor fellows had only just been landed, when the services of the life-boat were> again called into requisition, the schooner Alexandrine, of Pornic, having also gone on the same fatal sandbank, and becoming a total wreck. The determined life-boat men promptly responded to this further call, and were the means of saving the schooner's crew of 6 men—only just in time, for they were scarcely taken off before a huge wave broke over the vessel almost half-mast high. The Inspecting Officer of Coast Guard, who was an eye-witness of these services, reported that the life-boat was managed most admirably, and that the greatest credit was due to the coxswain and the whole of the boat's crew. WILLIAM CORKHILL, one of them, jumped overboard from the life-boat, and cleared a floating rope from the shore, which, having got foul of the rudder, and getting fastened there, endangered the safety of the boat.