On the 19th June a vessel with a signal of distress flying was seen, while a strong breeze was blowing from the N.W. with a rough sea and thick weather.

She was on the S. side of Olanyard Bay, and about fifty yards from the rocks. The Life-boat Edinburgh and B. M. Ballantyne was launched at 12.15 P.M., and found that the vessel was the schooner Marie Kirstine, of Glasgow, in ballast, from Larne for Whitehaven, and carrying a crew of three men. Four of the Life-boat men boarded her, the use of the boat's hawser and anchor was given, and with the help of the Life-boat crew the vessel was extricated from a very perilous situation..