During a moderate S.E. wind at 6 A.M., on the llth September, the Bradford Life-boat and Vulcan steam-tug proceeded to sea in response to signal guns from the Gull Lightship, and found a barque riding near the North Sand Head, having been in collision with another vessel. The barque's crew had abandoned her, but now went on board again, anchors were supplied, she was taken in tow, and brought to Dover, the wind by that time having increased to a hard gale from the N. The barque proved to be the Maria, of Christiania, bound from Caen to Newcastle, in ballast, with a crew of ten men..