HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The ketch Mary Tweedlie, of Berwick, was seen running before the wind, tinder bare poles, at 3 P.M., on the 6th March, 1883, during a fearful gale of wind from N. to N.E. and a very heavy sea, the whole bar and the sea as far as the eye could reach being one mass of broken water. The No. 1 Lifeboat, Grace Darling, was launched, and . was more than three hours in reaching the vessel. The crew pulled bravely until almost exhausted; but every time they seemed to be near enough to throw a line on board, a huge wave washed them about a hundred yards astern. This was repeated ten or twelve times before the Life-boat men were able to get a rope fast to the vessel, after which they took two men into the boat, by means of the life-buoy, in a very exhausted and numbed condition.

One of the crew had received a blow on the head from a falling spar, at about 12 o'clock, and had died soon afterwards.

The same Life-boat saved the fishingboat Nancy, which had struck on the Bigg while returning to Holy Island during a gale of wind from the N.E. on the 11th September. The seas were beginning to break over her, and she would probably have broken up in a short time, and her crew of five men lost, had it not been for the timely arrival of the Life-boat.