Signals were fired from the Customs Watch House at 11.30 A.M. on the 28th March, indicating that the services of the Life-boat were required. The crew of the Life-boat John Turner Turner at once assembled, the boat was launched, and in about five minutes from the time of the signals being fired, was on her way to the schooner G. W. Pearns, of Plymouth, bound from Antwerp for Douglas with about 20 tons of dynamite on board, which was at anchor in a very dangerous position in the bay. A strong gale was blowing at the time from the E.S.E., and the sea was very heavy. As the Life-boat men had but a short distance to row, the vessel was soon reached, and her crew of five men were with very great difficulty taken into the Life-boat and biougat ashore..