DUNGENESS.—On the night of the 15th February, signals of distress were observed and the crew of the Life-boat R.A.O.B.

were at once summoned. At about 10.30 the boat was launched in a rough sea, the wind blowing a moderate gale from the E.S.E., and found the Schooner Ben Aigen, of Hull, bound from St. Valery for London with a cargo of phosphate, stranded S.E.of the Life-boat house. The vessel's crew of four men jumped into the Life-boat immediately she arrived alongside, but the master refused to leave his vessel, stating that if she went he would go with her. He remained on board until the following tide, when she was beaten up on shore. The Life-boat landed the four men, the boat and all on board her being literally encased in ice and all the men more or less benumbed by the cold.

One of the crew was washed out of the boat on reaching the shote, but the master launcher waded into the surf and assisted him to land..