SWANAGE.—At about 5 A.M. on the 7th March, the Life-boat Charlotte Mary was launched during a gale from the S.S.E.

and a heavy sea, in response to signals of distress from the schooner William Maskill, of Goole, bound from Jersey for Southampton with gas tar and gravel, which had stranded on Old Harry Ledge, Handfast Point. Her crew of four men were taken into the Life-boat and safely landed at Studland, the boat returning to her station at 3 P.M. The Life-boat was frequently filled by the heavy seas on her passage tothe vessel, but rapidly freed herself of water..