NORTH DEAL.—Signals having beenfired by the South Sand Head Lightvessel, the crew of the Mary Somervitte Life-boat were summoned on the morning of the 3rd February, and the boat was launched at about 7.10. The weather was thick at the time; the wind was blowing from the W., and there was a strong sea.

On reaching the Sand, the Life-boat men found the barque Loch Ken, of Liverpool, coal-laden from Middlesbrough for Valparaiso, stranded, and with the help of other boatmen and a steam-tug, the vessel, with fourteen persons on board, was got afloat and was taken into the Downs, the Life-boat returning to her station at about 2.30 P.M..