CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow squalls, on the 8th Feb. 1889, the Life-boat Hope was taken to Derby haven, about two miles from the Life-boat house, launched at 4.30 P.M., and proceeded to her assistance.

On, reaching her she was found to be the Madryn, of Carnarvon, bound from Greenock for Douglas, with a cargo of coal and carrying a crew of three men.

As she had sprung a leak and was sinking fast, four of the Life-boat men were put on board her, the Life-boat remaining by her, and she was taken safely into Derby haven harbour..