APPLEDORE.—A little before midnight on the 7th October signals were observed and a steam-whistle was heard in the bay, but for some time the signals ceased.

About 2 o'clock on the following morning they were resumed, and the gun at Braunton Lighthouse was repeatedly fired.

The wind was blowing fresh from the JNJS.'W., the weather was hazy, and there was a heavy ground sea. In reply to the signals the Appledore No. 1 Life-boat Hope was launched, proceeded in search of the vessel, and found her ashore on Saunton Sands. She proved to be the ss. Ranee, of Bristol, bound from Torquay to Newport, in ballast. The Life-boat took off the engineer, his wife, two children, and a Newport pilot, and landed them at Appledore. The master and eleven men refused to leave the vessel..