The same life-boat also performed a noble service on the 2nd December, in saving at great risk the crew, consisting of 3 men, of the sloop Frances Mary, of Inverkeithing, which vessel became a total wreck on the Eedcar Eocks during a strong northerly wind and in a very heavy sea. The old Eedcar life-boat put off as well as the Surton-on-Trent, but after contending for some time with the heavy seas, the latter boat reached the scene of the wreck half an hour before the old boat. There was, however, not sufficient water where the vessel lay among the rocks to enable the life-boat to get along- side her, and a portion of the crew of the boat then waded between the reefs to her, some of them being up to their necks in water, and eventually the poor shipwrecked men were got into the life-boat and were safely landed..