CAISTER.—Signal guns having been fired by the lightships, the Caister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched at3 P.M. on the 10th January during a W.

wind and a very thick fog, and sailed to the south part of the Middle Cross Sand, where she found the s.s. Lady Anne, of and for Sunderland, from Bilbao, with a cargo of iron ore, stranded. With the help of the crew of a yawl, which had also put off from Caister, the vessel was got afloat on the 12th January, and was taken into Yarmouth Roads, the Life-boat returning to her station at 12 noon on that day..