While a strong gale was blowing from the S., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the night of the 5th October, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Mary and Martha, bound from Queensferry for Dundalk, laden with bricks, which had lost her main sheet and was lying close to the breakwater. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off to her assistance at 10 o'clock, and brought the vessel's crew of four men ashore, landing them about midnight..