On the 29th Oct., 1868, during a hard gale, a smack, which was riding heavily in a danger- ous position outside the roadstead, hoisted a signal of distress. The Cotton Sheppard life-boat was launched, and proceeded out, when it was found that the vessel was the flat William, of Carnarvon, and that she was short handed. Four of the life-boat men then went on board, got the vessel under weigh, and navigated her, with her crew of 2 men, safely into harbour. But for this help the vessel would probably have become a total .wreck, with the loss of.