PLYMOUTH. — The Life-boat Clemency put off on the 9th February, during a very heavy S. gale, and rendered valuable assistance to the s.s. Hankow, of London, which was in a perilous position outside Plymouth Breakwater. The Life-boat conveyed hawsers from the Government steam-tug Trusty to the vessel, at the imminent risk of the men's lives, and she was then extricated from her dangerous situation and towed inside the Breakwater by the Trusty and two other steamers.

The sea was so heavy outside that it would have been impossible, in the absence of the Life-boat, to have passed the towing hawsers to the endangered vessel..