EASTBOURNE.—The Life-boat William and Mary was launched at 1.45 P.M. on the 31st August to the assistance of the fishing-cutter Mystery, of Brixham, while a strong S.S.W. wind was blowing accompanied by a rough sea. The vessel had struck on the Boulder Bank a little to the westward of the pier-head. She got over the bank into deeper water and then knocked against the inside of the reef and stranded. Her crew of four men and a boy took to their boat and were met by the Life-boat, but did not need any help.

They stated that the vessel had a large quantity of water in her, the mast was sprung just above the deck and they feared that it would falL The Life-boat then proceeded to the smack, which had been boarded by two watermen and had been taken through a gap in the reef into the offing. The Life-boat overtook her about two miles from the shore, some of the Life-boat men boarded her, and she was taken into Dover harbour..