The ketch Friendship, of Goole, having sprung a leak off St.

Abbs Head, would not steer and could not fetch a port, and she consequently drifted on the Annat sandbank, off Mon- trose, early on the morning of the 15th January. The Life-boat Mincing-lane, went off through a heavy surf and ! rescued the crew of 3 men, who would in all probability have been lost had they attempted to land in their own boat.As it was, on account of the darkness of the night, it took the Life-boat men some time before they could discover the wreck,—and such was the strength of the wind and tide, that the Life-boat could not be pulled back through the surf, but had to be beached about a mile from the Boat-house..