On the afternoon of Wednesday, the 15th November, while the wind was blowing freshfrom the S.S.E., fifteen vessels came to anchor in the bay, being unable to get round St. David's Head. Some were in the most exposed and dangerous part of the bay, and early on the following morning the wind changed to the N.N.E., and for a short time blew a fresh gale, •which..

rendered the position of many of them most critical. At about 5 o'clock the look-out man at the Coastguard Station observed two of the vessels burning blue lights, as signals of distress. He immediately informed the coxswain of the Lifeboat Helen of Foxley; the crew were summoned, and the boat was launched, proceeded to. the schooner Iowa, of Padstow, and as the master and crew—five in all—wished to leave the vessel, they were taken into the Life-boat. The Life-boat then went to the schooner Mary, of St.

Ives, and took off her crew of five men; then to-the schooner Sose, of Carnarvon, rescued her crew of three men, and afterwards went to the smack Gander, of Cardigan, and took off her crew of three men.

These sixteen men were landed at Goodwick Quay. Signals were then shown from some of the other vessels, and the Life-boat went out four times and took off the crews, numbering in all thirty men, from the schooners Elizabeth, of Aberystwyth; Victoria, of Beaumaris; Charles, and Jane Anwyl, of Carnarvon, and smack Mary Ann Jane, of Carnarvon •, schooners Istwytli, of Carnarvon, and Korkinour, of Beaumaris; and smacks Commerce, Ocean, Rapid, and Margaret, of Cardigan. Fortysix men were thus brought ashore by the Life-boat, all being safely landed by 11 A.M..