BROUGHTY FERRY.—At one o'clock on the morning of the 18th November, the pilot-cutter No. 2 of Dundee, dragged its anchor and stranded on Abertay Sands.

Heeling over until it lay broadside to the gale, the vessel encountered the full force of wind and sea. The tide was ebbing at the time. Huge sheets of water swept the decks, the spray blew clean over the mastheads, and the crew were in imminent danger of being washed overboard.

Eockets were sent up at intervals and coloured signals were burned, but the blinding fury of the seas, precluded these from being witnessed from the shore. The crew took to the rigging, the hold beginning to fill with water; and as the hours slipped away the position of the men became desperate in the extreme.

About daybreak, one of the distress rockets was fortunately descried from Broughty Ferry. The Life-boat Samuel Shawcross was promptly launched and manned, and about half-past eight left Broughty Pier. With sail set the Lifeboat sped rapidly down the river, and in about half an hour had reached the sands. As the boat approached them the sail was furled and the oars were brought into requisition. The furious sea, however,however, preventing the Life-boat from getting within 20 yards of the cutter, a line was hove to the vessel, and one by one the shipwrecked crew, numbering seven men, were dragged through the surf and taken safely on board the Life-boat. This work occupied about half an hour. The steamtug Excelsior, which had been despatched from Dundee on news of the disaster being received there, then took the Lifeboat in tow, and in three-quarters of an hour they were abreast of Bronghty Pier.

Hundreds of people collected on the pier, and when the Life-boat drew near and it was seen that it had been successful in its mission a ringing cheer was raised..