On the 15th January intelligence having been received that a vessel had stranded at Kirkton Head, the Life-boat was launched at 9.20 A.M., and sailed to the vessel which was reached about 9.45.

A gale of wind was blowing from the 8.8.W., and there was a heavy sea on.

An attempt was first made by a steam-tug to tow off the vessel, which was the schooner Arnold, of Copenhagen, bound from Iceland for Santander, with a cargo of dried fish; but these efforts failed, and the crew, five in number, were then taken off by the Life-boat, which afterwards returned to her station in tow of the steam-tug..