APPLEDORE, DEVON. — On the 24th March, at about 1.15 P.M., a schooner was observed running for Bideford Harbour.

The wind was then blowing a gale from the N., with heavy snow squalls. When between the Fairway and Bar buoys the vessel was caught in a violent and dense snow squall, completely enveloping her for a time, and on its clearing away she was discovered to be on the South Tail Bank, surrounded by broken water. The Appledore No. 1 Life-boat was immediately launched, and succeeded in rescuing the crew, consisting of 3 men, and in landing them safely at 3.30 P.M. The vessel was the schooner Heroine, of Dartmouth, bound from Lydney to Fremington, with a cargo of coal—she became a total wreck. Had there been no Life-boat on this station the shipwrecked crew would doubtless have perished from cold in the rigging, so severe was the wind, hail, snow, and frost.

It was on this same Sunday afternoon that the terrible catastrophe happened to H.M.S. Eurydice off the Isle of Wight..