FISHGUARD.—On the morning of the 2nd March the coxswain of the Life-boat was informed by a messenger that a vessel was on her beam ends, with all her sails blown to rags, east of Strumble Head.

Shortly afterwards another messenger arrived and confirmed the report. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Appin were therefore summoned, and at 10.45 the boat put off in a moderate wind with a rough sea, after a gale on the preceding night, and proceeding under canvas came up with the vessel at 2 o'clock. She proved to be the schooner Alice Eleanor, of and from Wexford, in ballast for Newport; she was anchored off Fortsichan, and had been abandoned by her crew. On boarding her, the Life-boat men found that several of her spars were lost, her sails were in shreds, her sand ballast shifted, and she was in a sinking condition, her gunwale being under water. The pumps were at once got to work and the water was pumped and baled out, jury sails were rigged, and the vessel was taken into Fishguard Bay and afterwards warped into the harbour..