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PORT EYNON.—The Life-boat A Daughter's Offering put off at 12.45 P.M. on the 17th November, while a moderate gale was blowing from the W.N.W., and saved a man from the boat belonging to the ketch Favourite, of Milford. In returning to the shore the Life-boat shipped a heavy sea which knocked all the oars out of the men's hands; two of the oars were lost and one was broken and the crew were completely drenched. The rescued man on arriving at his home at Ilfracombe, wrote to the Honorary Secretary of the Port Eynon Branch of the Institution, who went out in the Life-boat, thanking him and the remainder of the crew, amongst whom were two other volunteers, for the service they had rendered to him.

He was in a greatly exhausted condition when picked up by the Life-boat men.

The master and only other man of the Favourite's crew had been taken off by a schooner..