BURNHAM, SOMERSETSHIRE. — On the morning of the 9th December, 1886, the barque Fremad, of Tonsberg, bound from West Bay, Nova Scotia, for Bristol, with deals and battens, showed signals of distress daring a heavy gale from the W. by N. The Life-boat CMtenham was launched at 7 o'clock, and after two hoars' hard work reached the stranded vessel and rescued eleven of her crew.

The mate had been washed overboard at the Mumbles. The barque was stranded on Stert Island, her rudder was disabled, and she had lost her mizenmast and all her sails..