On the 14th November the brigantine Elizabeth, of Drogheda, when off St. Bee's Head, during a gale of wind and in a very high sea, lost her mainmast, foretopmast, &e., and hoisted a signal of distress, where- upon the Elizabeth life-boat quickly pro- ceeded to her and found that she required the aid of a steam-tug. Accordingly the life-boat burnt blue lights as a signal for a steamer, waited by the vessel until the tug had arrived, and then accompanied her into harbour..