MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—A very severe gale from the N.N.W. was experienced on the 6th and 7th November, and the Lifeboat Star of Hope put off to the assistance of five distressed vessels, and rescued their crews numbering in all seventeen men.

The boat was first called out at 7 P.M. on the 6th, and proceeded through ar heavy sea which almost continually filled her, to the assistance of the schooner Shisboy which had been in collision with another vessel. The crew of three men were, at their request, taken into the Life-boat and placed for safaty on board another vessel.

The boat returned ashore at about 11 P.M.

and at 1.20 A.M., was again launched to assist the Not Forgot, of Chester, bound from Dublin for Preston with a cargo of barley, •which was in danger of parting her cables. Her crew of four men weretaken into the Life-boat and landed at about 6 A.M. At noon another call was received, and the boat again went out, and rescued the crew of three men from the schooner Henry, of Dublin, four men from the Renown, of Swansea, and three men from theJohn Herbert, of Carnarvon, all of which were in danger of breaking from, their moorings..