On the 20th Oct., about 10.30 P.M., it then blowing a mode- rate gale at S.S.W. with a very heavy sea on, a man swam ashore about a mile north of Winterton Life-boat Station. An over- turned ship's boat lay beating about in the surf not far from him. The man was the solitary survivor of 13 who had left the wreck of the barque Young England, of Middlesborough, half an hour previously in the now overturned boat. A young Winterton beachman—who, with many others that dark and stormy night, was walking the beach on the look out— observed the boat in the surf, and then the half-drowned sailor on the beach.

The first act of the sailor was to state to the young man that when he and his 12 deceased shipmates left the Young England 4 men were left on board, owing to the rope which held the boat to her suddenly parting, and, more- over, that the vessel was breaking up.

Whereupon, the young man—possibly having had painful experience of the value of time under such circumstances— started off at once, with his face south- ward, and (to use the words of the report), " knowing that no boat could get off ex- ' cept the Caister Life-boat, passed by the Winterton Life-boat Station, -where there is a medium-sized rowing Life-boat, and never stopped till he had reached Caister Life-boat Station, 6 miles distant, by which time, as may be supposed, he was thoroughly exhausted." The Caister No. 1 Life-boat is one of the finest of the large sailing Life-boat class, and is 42 feet long. Her crew had been out early in the evening watching the Young England, then considered to be in an awkward position, but in no imme- diate danger, and with, no distress-signal her anchors northward and passed out of . The vessel subsequently dragged sight of Caister. These men, on the re- ceipt of the intelligence of the wreck, were not long in manning the Life-boat, and by 3.30 A.M. had fallen in with the object stern broken off, a complete wreck." The ) men were still clinging to what was of their search, which, they found " in the midst of the breakers, with her bow and left of their vessel, and were with diffi- culty hauled through the water to the Life-boat by lines thrown them.

The report of the wreck states that " the shouts, cries, and tears of joy (of the 4 rescued men) on the arrival of the Life-boat exceeded all that that crew had ever witnessed," The Life-boat did not regain the shore with the wrecked seamen till past 8 A.&T. on the 21st. The name of the young man who so gallantly plodded on through the storm, with his intelli- gence, and so preserved the lives of the 4 men who on the crumbling wreck were counting the moments, is JOHN BBOWIT.

The Young England was a barque of 400 tons belonging to Middlesborough, bound from Hanssand to London with a cargo of iron and wood. She carried a crew of 17, all told, of whom 12 perished as above described..