WALMER On the morning of the 5th February, the coxswain of the Centurion Life-boat was informed by a boat's crew that they had seen a vessel on the Goodwin Sands; but as the wind and sea were nearly calm at the time, he did not think it necessary to launch the Life-boat until he found that four of the vessel's crew were left on board, and could not be rescued on account of the surf on the Sands, the remainder of the men having been taken off by some galleys. He then returned to the station, and, having assembled the Life-boat crew, the boat proceeded to the vessel and rescued the 4 men, who were brought safely ashore. Their vessel was the barque Shannon, of London, bound from Shields to Leghorn with a cargo of coal..