On the 29th January the brig Veritos, of Antwerp, was observed with .signals of dis- tress flying, near the Manacles Rocks, on the Cornish Coast, during a whole gale from W.N.W. The life-boat Western Commer- cial Traveller at once put off, and on arriving alongside found the vessel in possession of 3 French fishermen, who had discovered her, abandoned, off Scilly the previous day.

Some of the life-boat men boarded the brig, and, with the assistance of two steamers, she was eventually got safely into Falmouth Harbour.