Similar service was rendered on the 10th December by the Life-boat to the crews, numbering in all eighteen men, of the schooners Caroline, Seaward, Phoenician, and Reaper. A very severe gale from the W.N.W. had suddenly sprung up, causing a tremendous sea in the bay,and had the wind gone a little more to the northward the sea would have been driven into Scrabster Roads, and the four vessels would have been in imminent peril of being wrecked..