The tubular life-boat was likewise the means of rendering good service to another shipwrecked crew on the 19th October.

During the previous night a very severe gale had swept over Liverpool and its neigh- bourhood, and although it abated, the next morning the sea continued very rough, dash- ing over some of the lowest piers at the en- trance to the port. About seven o'clock the schooner Elephant, of Ulverstone, struck on Taylor's Bank, and became a total wreck.

One of the life-boats belonging to the Liver- pool Dock Trustees had the first intimation of the wreck, and went down to the Sand Bank, the Willie and Arthur afterwards fol- lowing in tow of the steam-tug Resolute, and arriving at the spot nearly an hour after the Liverpool boat, which, however, had not been able to approach the wreck. The tubular life-boat, being taken to windward by the steamer, was slipped, and at once proceeded to the rescue of two men who were seen in the rigging. They saved one, and the coxswain of the life-boat was in the act'of ascending the rigging to save the other, who was the master, when the foremast, to which he was lashed, went overboard, and being held by the rigging, it could not float, and the poor fellow belonging to the schooner was unfortunately drowned. It was re- ported that great credit was due to the captain of the steamer for his skill in put- ting the tubular boat into position for get- ting alongside the wreck..