Information having been given to the Coxswain of the Life-boat that a vessel had been seen ashore off Beachy Head, during a strong W.S.W. breeze, a heavy sea, and a thick fog on the 24th April, the Lifeboat Michael Henry was launched at 10.40 A.M. and found the ship Polynesia, of Hamburg, broadside on the rocks between Birling Gap and Beachy Head, and being washed or driven in shore as the tide rose. At the request of the mate of the vessel the Life-boat remained by her, as she was leaking badly, and at 4.30 the master and crew, sixteen in all, got into the boat and were brought ashore..