CLACTON.— Signals from the Swin Middle Light-vessel were observed on the morning of the 17th February, during a N.E. wind and a rough sea. The Albert Edward Life-boat was launched at 3.30; proceeded to the Light-vessel, and found the crew, consisting of nine men, of the brig Ispilen, of Kragero, had taken refuge there, having taken to their boat on their vessel stranding on the Whitaker Spit.

These men were with difficulty taken into the Life-boat, which then proceeded to the stranded vessel; but it was found that she had eight feet of water and sand in her, and would become a total wreck.

She was bound from Christiania for Lowestoft, with a cargo of ice. The Life-boat then returned to her station, being kindly towed by the s.s. Erasmus Wilson, of London, as far as the N.E. Ghinfleet buoy, and reached Clacton at mid-day..