RYE.—The night patrol reported that signals of distress were being made by a vessel off the west end of Broom Hill on the 24th November. The crew of the Mary Stanford Life-boat were immediately assembled, and the Boat put off at 8 P.M.

On arriving alongside the vessel, which was the fishing-smack Maid of Kent, of Bye, her crew, consisting of three men, were in the act of leaving her, having their boat half over the side; but at the suggestion and with the assistance of the Life-boatmen, an anchor was laid out, some of the Life-boat crew boarded the vessel, and as the tide flowed she was got afloat and proceeded into Bye Harbour.