BBIXHAM, SOUTH DEVON.—Bockets were seen and signal guns heard during a S.E.

wind and a very heavy sea on the evening of Sunday the 6th December. The Lifeboat Brian Sates was launched at about 7 o'clock, pulled round Berry Head, and found a large steamer, the Sretton Hall, bound from Antwerp for Cardiff and Newport with part general cargo and ballast, on the rocks at Sharkham Point.

Some of her crew got ashore by a ladder to the cliff, and at the request of the master, who with his officers and some of the crew had remained on board, the Life-boat stayed by the vessel in case she should break up, the Life-boatmen assisting to save the cargo from the after-hold, and remaining as long as it was possible to stand on the deck. The Life-boat regained her station at 6 o'clock on the following morning..