DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the morning of the 27th May information was received that a vessel in the vicinity of Haile Sand was firing signals of distress.

The crew of the Life-boat Richard were summoned, and at 4.30 the boat was launched. The rocket apparatus had been brought into requisition and communication with the vessel had been effected, but her crew refused to make use of it. On reaching the ship, the s.s. Arthur, of North Shields, bound from Dunkirk for Blyth in ballast, the Lifeboat men were requested by the master to remain by him, and they accordingly did so for about two hours, when, the gale increasing and the seas breaking over the vessel, which was lying broadside on in a very dangerous position, it was considered expedient to leave her. The master and crew—eighteen men in all—therefore got into the Life-boat and were taken safely ashore.