GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN.—The Lifeboat George Pooley was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 26th February and proceeded to the schooner Maria Farleigh, of Fowey, bound from Glasgow for Cardiff, which was in a dangerous position, embayed on a lee shore, about a mile S.S.E. of Grey Point, Belfast Lough. The wind, which was blowing strongly from the E.N.E., was increasing and there was a very heavy sea. Seven of the Life-boat men boarded the vessel at the master's request, hove up the anchors, set sail, and finally the vessel, which had a crew of four men, was taken up the Lough to a safe anchorage in Whitehouse Eoads.

As it was impossible for the Life-boat to beat back to her station until the weather moderated she was taken to Belfast and returned to Giroomsport on the following day..