On the 10th Sept.

the Life-boat Commercial -Traveller, No. 1, during a heavy gale at S.W., and after- wards at N.W., rendered such important assistance to the barque Forttma, of Goth- enberg, as enabled that vessel, then ashore in Morecambe Bay, to escape total de- struction, thereby contributing to the preservation, of ship, cargo, and crew of 16 men..