Earlier in the year, on the 7th January, the Kingsdowne and North Deal Life- boats had also been enabled to render somewhat similar service to the Italian brig Sori, except that in this instance the vessel, laden with linseed, was found on the Goodwin Sands abandoned by her crew. The brig had 16 feet of water in her, and all her sails and rigging were much damaged. "With the assistance of a steam-tug, however, the crews of the Life-boats succeeded, after great exertions, in getting her afloat, when she was towed towards Ramsgate. She grounded just outside the Pier, and it was not till one o'clock the following morning that she was got into the Harbour. It is a very rare occurrence for a vessel in such a wretched state to be saved from the fatal Goodwins.