EXMOUTH. — A telegram from Dawlish was received at midday on the 7th October, stating that the services of the Life-boat were urgently needed by a vessel lying off that place. A gale of wind was blowing from the W.W.W., and there was a very rough sea on. The Life-boat Joseph Somes was promptly launched, and found the fishing-cutter Topsy, of Torquay, anchored in the bay, about a mile and a half from Langstone Head. Some of the Life-boatmen boarded her, helped to get her anchor up, and she was then taken in tow by the Boat over the bar and into Exmouth Harbour.

She carried a crew of three men. The master of the vessel stated that he had left Torquay at about 2 P.M. on the 6th October. The gale commenced at 2 o'clock on the following morning ; at 5 o'clock the nets were taken in, and at daylight the boat got under way. She was filled three times by the heavy seas, and her crew had to be continually pumping her..