BEAUNTON.—The Life-boat Robert and Catherine was launched at 8.30 P.M. on the 7th December, during a W.S.W. gale and a heavy broken sea, to the assistance of the brigantine Chalciope, of Fleetwood, bound from Corunna for Cardiff with pitwood.

The vessel had gone ashore about a mile from Down End, the master having lost his reckoning during a fog. Three of the crew were taken into the Life-boat and safely landed..