CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the evening of the 2nd February, signals of distress were seen from a vessel in the direction of the Barber Sand. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend promptly proceeded to the Sand and found the smack Peace, of Lowestoft, ashore there. The Lifeboat dropped her anchor, sheered alongside the smack, and four or five of the Life-boat men jumped on board her.

Just then the sea and tide drove the Life-boat away from the vessel: however, a line was got from her, and the boat was again hauled alongside. Immediately afterwards the smack was struck by a heavy sea, which heeled • her over on to the boat, her mainboom and mainsail falling across the Life-boat and slightly injuring some of the crew. The crew of the smack and the Life-boatmen who had gone on board, at once jumped into the Life-boat. The next sea slightly righted the smack, and the boat was then cut adrift as quickly as possible, but theeddy tide catching her, swung her round against the vessel and did some damage to the boat. After this, part of the boat's sail was set, and she hove to just clear of the Sand, and -waited three quarters of an hour to see what would become of the vessel. Ultimately the smack drove off the Sand, when the Life-boatmen boarded her, and found her three parts full of water. Some of the sails were then set, and by constant pumping the water was kept under, and the smack was taken into Yarmouth Harbour. She had a crew of five men.

About midnight on the 5th March, the coxswain of the Covent Garden Life-boat, stationed at Caister, received intelligence that a vessel was riding very near the shore at Scratby, and that she was making signals of distress. The Cockle Lightship soon afterwards began to fire guns and rockets. The Life-boat was then launched, and proceeded to Scratby, where she found the barque Angostura, of Hamburg, bound thence to Singapore with a general cargo, riding with one cable, the other having parted. The, Life-boat's' anchor was let go, and, with great difficulty, she was veered down to the ship, this taking nearly an .hour to accomplish. Some of the crew then boarded her with much danger, as she was lying in the trough of the sea and was rolling heavily. Had she been half her length nearer the shore she must have been lost with all hands. The master accepted the proffered services of the Life-boatmen, and they were successful in taking the vessel into Yarmouth Boads. A steam-tug was afterwards engaged, and she was towed to Harwich.

The barque carried a crew of fourteen men, and the master's wife and two fishermen were also on board..