On the 31st January the brigantine Margaret, of Lancaster, was driven on Dungarvan Bar during a heavy south- easterly gale. The Life-boat went off to her, but could only get within two hun- dred yards of her, for the sea on the bar was so heavy, and the gale so strong, that the boat was driven back, and three of the rowing-crutches were forced out of the gunwale: they were, however, replaced by spare ones, and subsequently three attempts were made to reach the vessel, all of which, however, were unavailing, and the men, most reluctantly, were com- pelled to return to the shore. However, the shipwrecked men remained safely on board until the sea somewhat moderated, when the Life-boat was again launched, and was then enabled to bring the 5 men ashore. In regard to the failure of the boat on the first trial, it is only right to mention that, in the opinion of the Local Committee and the master and owner of the ship, the cause was the want of force in the boat, which was a small six-oared one; and they considered that the crew of the Life-boat did their utmost on the occasion. As a sufficient number of men could now be depended on to work a larger boat, and the fisher- men at Ballinacourty not hesitating to go out in the Life-boat in the roughest weather, which was not the case when tha Life-boat Station was founded some years since, the Local Committee recommended that a larger boat should be supplied; which request has been acceded to by the Institution, and a fine ten-oared boat sent in the place of the other.

Meanwhile a few days afterwards the small Life-boat had been called on to proceed once more to the assistance of those on board the brigantine Margaret.

After the 5 men were landed by the boat in the first instance, and the weather had moderated, the vessel was boarded by the master and crew and 15 other men who were engaged to throw the cargo over- board to lighten the ship, in the hope that she might then be got off the bar.

The wind, however, increased, a heavy sea got up, and the position of those on board became very perilous, and there- upon signals were made for the aid of the Life-boat. The boat at once went out, and proceeded alongside, when the cox- swain proposed to take 10 men off the wreck at first; but all were so appre- hensive of the vessel's breaking up, that the whole of the men, 20 in number, crowded into the boat, the master-being the last to leave his ship. The Life-boat then had 29 men on board, including her own crew, but all were safely landed.

On the way to the vessel a heavy sea broke into the Life-boat, but the water was speedily self-ejected through the pa- tent valves, with which most of the Life- boat Society's boats are fitted.

This was the last service the small Life-boat was called on to render, and thus nobly did she finish her career of mercy, having, during the time she was on her station, been instrumental altogether in saving 54 lives from different wrecks..