On the 14th January, at 5.30 A.M., during a moderate breeze from the N.N.E., with snow squalls, the Bradford Life-boat and harbour steam-tug Vulcan, went out in response to signals of distress, and brought the schooner Minnie Coles, of Southampton, safely into harbour, that vessel having gone ashore on the N.E. part of the Goodwin Sands. She was on a voyage from London to Belfast, with a cargo of superphosphate and two and a half tons of gunpowder, and had a crew of five men. In going out to the vessel, the snow squalls were so thick that it was occasionally necessary to stop the tug's engines..