KIMERIDGE, DORSET.—On the 21st of March the cutter Ceres, of Poole, bound to that port from Truro, with barley, which had been hove to owing to a dense fog, had just been got round with her head to the S. when the wind suddenly changed, and the strong flood tide running in a S.E. direction carried her on to Broad beach. On information being received at the Kimeridge Life-boat Station, the Mary Heape Life-boat was launched, and proceeded to the assistance of the vessel.

Meanwhile two of the cutter's crew went out in their boat to lay out an anchor, but the boat was capsized by the heavy seas. One of the men clung to the bottom of the boat, but was unfortunately washed off and drowned; the other supported himself by two oars, and was picked up in a very exhausted state by the Life-boat, which afterwards, with much difficulty, on account of the very heavy surf, rescued the master and mate, who were on board the vessel..