WEXFORD.—In the afternoon of the 10th February, while a strong gale was blowing from the N.W. with a rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the fishing lugger Young John, of St. Ives, which had left Wexford on her homeward journey two days previously. The Wexford No. 1 Life-boat Andrew Pickard at once proceeded to her and found that in calculating the time the journey would take no allowance had been made for delay by stormy weather, and the seven men on board had only some raw potatoes and no fuel wherewith to cook them.

The weather rendered it impossible for their boat to return to Wexford and the poor fellows were in a starving condition.The Life-boat landed the master and two other men at Wexford and afterwards took them back to their vessel with the provisions they had obtained..