HOLYHEAD.—During a gale of wind from the N.W. by W., and a very heavy sea on the 20th January, the No. 2 Lifeboat Joseph Whitworth was called out by signals of distress exhibited by two vessels lying in the outer anchorage which were dragging their anchors and driving towards a lee shore. The Lifeboat was promptly launched at 8.12 P.M., and proceeded under sail first to the schooner Pride of the Dee, the crew of which, four in number, at once got into the boat; she then went to the schooner Isabella, and having taken off her crew of three men, returned towards the shore.

Before the land was reached howeveranother schooner, the Maggie Brocklebank, burnt a signal of distress, whereupon the Life-boat put about, went out again, and took off that vessel's crew, consisting of four men..