On the 12th February, signals of distress were shown by the three-masted schooner Mary Watkinson, of Barrow, and the Life-boat Thomas Fielden therefore went to her assistance. She was drifting towards the shore at Penrhos Point, dragging her anchors, and, as a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., and a very heavy sea was running, her crew of four men got on board the Life-boat and were brought ashore..