RAMSGATE.—On the 30th July, signal guns were fired from the Gull light-ship.

The Vulcan steam-tug and Bradford No. 2 Life-boat were manned as quickly as possible,, and proceeded direct for a vessel which was observed ashore on the N.N.W.

part of the Goodwin Sands. On arriving alongside, the services of the Life-boat and steamer were at once engaged. A boat from Deal, with two men, had previously arrived, and another Deal boat subsequently came up. The crew of two men of the last-named boat went on board the vessel, but finding that their services were not required, they were about to get jito their boat again when it was found that she had been stove and filled with water. They then waded through the surf to the other boat, and on the tideflowing, the four men attempted to get that boat off the sand, but, owing to the heavy sea, she was also stove and filled, The men then waded up to their waists in water towards the vessel, and, on their perilous situation being observed, the ship's boat was lowered by the Life-boatmen, and they were brought safely on board. As the tide flowed, the wind and sea increased, and the steamer, which had been riding near the vessel, then attached her towing hawser and commenced towing, but after some time the rope broke. A larger towing hawser was then made use of, and eventually the vessel came afloat, and was taken into Ramsgate Harbour.

She was the brigantine Donna, Maria, of Swansea, 123 tons, from Burntisland to Cherbourg, •with coal. Her crew consisted of 6 men..