JOHNSHAVEN, KINCARDINESHIRE.—The wind and sea having increased while some fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon were at sea on the 31st Jan., 1895, it was dangerous for them to attempt to return to their harbour. They were therefore warned off, and a message was sent by telephone to Johnshaven stating that they were likely to make for that port. At 2.30 P.M. the Life-boat on that station, the Meanwell of Gleribervie, was launched and saw five of the boats safely into harbour. About three-quarters of an hour afterwards another boat was ob-served to be coming in, and the Life-boat went to meet her and put a man on board to pilot her into safety.

RAMSGATE. — In response to signals from the Goodwin and Gull Light-vessels, the Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, left the harbour at 10 P.M.

on the 30th January. The wind was blowing strongly from E.N.E., afterwards increasing to a gale, there was a very ropes from the steamer, and finding she had lost her propeller, the Life-boat men agreed to remain by her until the tug was able to take her in tow. They re- mained astern until daylight, when the tug made several attempts to get a line on board but the heavy seas frustrated all endeavours to do so until about 8 A.M.

when the wire tow-rope was passed on board and the vessel was towed up to her anchors. When these had been hove up heavy sea and the weather was thick, with heavy snow squalls. The s.s. Beacon Light, of Liverpool, bound from New York for Bremerhaven, with a cargo of petro- leum, was found riding with two anchors down, about five miles from the East Goodwin. The Life-boat was towed alongside, slipped from the tug, got hold of the towing was continued in the direction of the Downs for about an hour. The tow-rope then parted but was hauled in and again passed to the vessel by the Life-boat. It, however, parted again.

Signals were then made for more assist- ance and the Life-boat proceeded to Dover to procure another tug. The Dover tug at once went out to the vessel and the Life - boat, which had been damaged by the heavy seas and was leaking badly, remained at Dover. The Aid, having her machinery damaged, was unable to render further help, and re- turned to harbour at 8 P.M. on the 81st January, the Beacon Light, in tow of the Dover tug, reaching the Downs at aboutmidnight. The injury to the Life-boat was received soon after she left the harbour but, although she was full of water, the crew remained in her for eighteen hours in a very heavy sea and bitterly cold weather.

BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 4th February several fishing-boats being in danger, the sea having risen very rapidly, the Life-boat John and Janet put off to their assistance and stood by them until they got into safety. Two of the boats were filled by the heavy seas in crossing the bar, but fortunately they were driven inside the broken water and their crews were able to throw out their fish and ballast and thus save the boats from sinking.

On the 6th February the Life-boat was again taken out and rendered assistance to fishing-boats. The early part of the morning being fine, the whole of the cobles went to sea, but about 11 o'clock the wind suddenly changed and blew a gale from the S.E. The Life-boat pulled outside the bar, on which a very heavy sea was breaking, and remained there until it was evident that no more boats were coming in; most of them bearing away for Eyemouth.

FALMOUTH.—The schooner Aneurin, of Carnarvon, bound from Salcombe for Aberdovey in ballast, dragged her anchor in a gale from E.S.E. on the 4th February and showed signals of distress. The Life-boat Bob Newbon was launched at 8.30 P.M., and was taken in tow by the s.s. Triton. Great difficulty and danger were encountered in getting alongside the vessel, which by that time was in close proximity to the Eastern breakwater, but eventually this was safely accomplished and the crew of four men were rescued and landed at Falmouth. The schooner became a total wreck.

NORTH SUNDERLAND. At 6.30 A.M. OH the 6th February the entire fleet of fishing-boats belonging to Sea Houses set out for the fishing ground. At about 9 o'clock a sudden gale accompanied by heavy snow showers and darkness came on, and the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched into the harbour to help any of the boats that might return. They all however sought shelter at the Fame Islands; but eight boats from Beadnell were assisted in by the Life-boat.

On the following day the Life-boat was again taken out and assisted two fishing boats which were making for the harbour in a very heavy sea. The first boat was got safely in, and the other one, acting on the warning of the Life-boat men, returned to the Fame Islands.

HOLY ISLAND.—A terrible snowstorm was experienced on the 6th February, and the wind increasing to a gale from S.S.E. a heavy sea sprung up. Twelve of the fishing-boats were unable to take the harbour, and ran ashore N. of Emanuel Head, their crews being assisted out of the water by men on the island. The No. 1 Life-boat Grace Darling put off to the assistance of three other boats, which were enabled to enter the harbour, although considerable risk was incurred in doing so.

EYEMOUTH.—The Life-boat James and Rachel Grindlay was launched at about 11.30 A.M. on the 6th February, and remained in attendance until several fishing - boats which were in danger in a very rough sea had got into safety.

WHITBY.—The fishing-fleet were re- turning on the afternoon of the 6th February, but during their absence the sea on the bar had greatly increased.

The first two boats which arrived crossed with safety; but the third one was caught by a very heavy sea and was in great danger of being swamped. It was then decided to launch the No. 2 Life-boat Christopher, and with some difficulty, on account of the ice and snow, the latter lying about eighteen inches deep, this was accomplished, and in fifteen minutes from the alarm being given the Life-boat was at the bar, ready to assist the boats as they came in.

CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—A tele- gram reporting a vessel ashore in Port St.

Mary Bay was received early on the morning of the 7th February, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S., with a very heavy sea. The snow having I drifted about six feet deep against the I Life-boat house, a large number of men | were engaged to cut a way out for the boat, and at 9.15 the Hope was launched.On reaching the bay the s.s. Vigilant, of Liverpool, bound from Barry port for Belfast with a cargo of coal, was found stranded on a reef. Six of her crew had been rescued by a shore boat, which had put off from the village to her assistance, and the remaining six men had taken refuge in the rigging, from which they were taken into the Life-boat in an ex- hausted condition, and landed at Port St.Mary.

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th February, at about 9 P.M., while a whole gale was blowing from S.E. with a blind- ing snowstorm, a trawler entered the harbour and reported that she had passed a sunken schooner, the water being several feet above the deck, about a quarter of a mile westward of the Life-boat house.

The crew of the Life-boat, Mary Isabella, were in the house and immediately manned the boat, which was taken down to the surf; two hundred willing hands bent on to the haul-off warp, but they could not move it, and ultimately it parted a great distance seaward. An attempt was then made to take the boat along the quay to a slip in the harbour, but the enormous drifts of snow rendered this utterly im- possible and from the same cause another slipway to windward could not be used.

Another trawler subsequently arrived and stated that she had been quite close to the wreck and that there was not a soul on board. At 3'30 in the morning, how- ever, at low water, the Coastguards heard shouts and fired three rockets over the vessel, but without any result. A way was then cut through) the snow-drifts be- tween the boathouse and the quay, and at eight o'clock, there being then a sufficient depth of water, it was decided to launch the Life-boat from the quay into the harbour, the boat being simply dropped into the water. She was thereby con- siderably damaged; but there was no other available means of getting her afloat. After about an hour's delay, it being necessary to put a patch of lead on a hole, a foot square, which had been made in the bow of the boat, she was hauled out of the harbour, and in a short time arrived at the wreck. Seeing the boat coming towards them two men emerged from the topsail at the crosstrees, crawled down the rigging and were hauled into the Life-boat, which had to be veered right on top of the lee portion of the wreck, a very dangerous manoeuvre, which however was very skilfully per- formed. The poor fellows were in a terribly exhausted and benumbed condi- tion, but a doctor was awaiting them when they reached the shore, and they re- ceived prompt and successful treatment.

It was ascertained that their vessel, the schooner Margaret and Elizabeth, of Liver- pool, bound from Point of Ayr for Ramsey, with coal, went ashore at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon in a fearful blizzard which raged from noon until 8 P.M., and hardly less furiously from then until 11 o'clock on the following morning. The finely powdered snow was like a dense blinding suffocating mist, for hours rendering the nearest objects in- visible, and the gale made the cold more intense, and had the men not been pro- tected by the sail it would scarcely have been possible for them to have survived their sixteen hours' exposure. Such a snow storm had not been experienced in the island within the memory of any inhabitant, the drifts of snow in some places being twenty feet high. On making an examination to ascertain the cause of the haul-off warp failing to work it was found that the vessel was lying across it, and had thus prevented the earlier rescue of her crew.

GIRVAN.—On the forenoon of the 6th February the wind commenced, to blow very strongly with blinding showers of snow. Several fishing-boats returned, but six of them were missing and as it was thought that the snowstorm had pre- vented their making the harbour, it was resolved to fire signal guns and rockets at intervals to attract the attention of the crews, and the town bell was rung for about three hours. Shortly after the first gun was fired, one of the boats arrived off the harbour and was followed at intervals by others, the men on board reporting very thick and bad weather outside, Later in the afternoon a rumour spread that one of the boats was at anchor in Woodland Bay, about three miles south of the harbour, but nothing definite was known until 9 o'clock, when a fisherman reported that his brother's boat, The Twins, was at anchor in the bay. As she was riding safely it was decided that the Life-boat need not proceed to her then, but that the crew should assemble at daybreak in readiness should their services be required.

The gale increased and as there was no probability of the boat reaching the har- bour for some considerable time, the Life- boat Sir Home Popham, was taken on her carriage to Woodland Bay, where she was launched and found the three fishermen in an exhausted condition haying no pro- visions or water. Two of the Life-boat men boarded the boat, got up the anchor and assisted to take her into the harbour.

PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—The ketch Tavy, of Plymouth, entered the harbour at 7 P.M. on the 14th February, but was unable to take a pilot owing to the rough weather, the wind blowing a whole gale from the S.E. and a very heavy sea running. She anchored off Hawker's Cove, but the force of the wind caused her to drag her anchors and finally she drove on the rocks and became a total wreck. When she struck, the master signalled for assistance, and at 9'15 the Life-boat Arab was launched, proceeded to the vessel, and three quarters of an hour afterwards returned to the shore with the shipwrecked crew, numbering four men.

ST. PETER'S PORT, GUERNSEY.—While the schooner Isabella Helen, bound from Plymouth for Guernsey with a cargo of limestone and wood, was endeavouring to enter the harbour in a strong gale from E.S.E. on the night of the 14th February, she missed stays and was compelled to bring up with two anchors in a very dangerous position off the Terres rocks.

In response to her signals of distress the Life-boat Vincent Wilkinson, Kirk Ella, was launched and was towed to the vessel by the tug Alert. On reaching her two of the Life-boat men boarded her, assisted to get a tow-rope to the steamer and to weigh the anchors, and she was towed into the outer harbour and anchored there between 5 and 6 o'clock on the following morning.

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 Sen 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.

BRIGHTON.—The barque SrucJcley Castle, of Glasgow, bound from Grimsby for Santos, Brazil, with coal and railway sleepers, in bringing up in order to land a pilot, in a moderate gale from E.N.E.

and a rough sea, stranded about 500 yards S. of the West pierhead on the 16th February. At 9.15A.M. the Life- boat Sunlight No. 2 was launched, pro- ceeded to the vessel and remained by her until she floated, without any assistance, and made for Plymouth.

DUNBAR. — At about half-past six o'clock on the morning of the 11th March the Coastguards observed a small open boat in a perilous position, it being im- possible for her to succeed in reaching the harbour owing to the rough state of the sea. The Life-boat Sarah Pickard was launched and, on reaching the boat, found there were three men on board; they were the master, mate and second mate of the brig Johan, of and from Christiania, bound for Sunderland laden with ice, which had stranded at Thorntonloch Point, about six miles E. of I)unbar at about 3.30 A.M.

Having picked up the men the Life-boat made for the vessel and found that the remainder of the crew had been taken off by the rocket apparatus. The brig be- came a total wreck.

NEWHAVEN. — The Life-boat Michael Henry was launched at 2.20 P.M. on the 23rd March, a ship having been reported ashore and proceeded to Crowlink where the s.s. Saturnus, of Amsterdam, homeward bound with a general cargo, was found stranded. At the master's request the Life-boat remained alongside until about 6 P.M., when she returned ashore as the vessel was not in need of any assistance.BULL BAY, ANGLESEY.—The schooner Clarence, of Beaumaris, showed signals of distress off Deer Point, about three quar- ters of a mile from shore, in a strong S.W.

gale, a heavy sea and misty weather, on the 23rd March. The Life-boat Curling was launched at about 5 P.M. and brought ashore the crew of three men. The vessel was watched from the shore during the night and on the following morning, the wind having changed to N.W. the Life- boat again went out, taking back the three men, got the vessel out of danger and enabled her to resume her voyage to Fishguard.

CARDIGAN.— The Coastguard on the look out at Penrhyn Castle observed a light in the bay, apparently shown by a vessel in distress, while a strong gale was blowing and a very heavy sea running on the night of the 23rd March. The crew of the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare were summoned, and at 11.30 the boat was launched and rescued the crew of two men from the vessel, which proved to be the smack Mary Ann, of Milford. The Life-boat men encountered terrible weather, the night being intensely dark, and feared that their boat would have been blown on to the rocks. They landed the shipwrecked men at Aberporth and were compelled to leave the boat on the beach there, it being utterly impossible to get her back to her station until the gale had moderated.

BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The schooner Noordster, of Alblasserdam, bound from Maracaybo for Hamburg, stranded on a rock, known locally as the "Oil Rock," off Hanover Point, westward of Brooke, in foggy weather on the 24th March. The casualty being observed by the Coast- guard, the drew of the Life-boat William Slaney Lewis were called and at 6.25 A.M.

the boat was launched, proceeded through a rough sea, the wind blowing strongly from S.W., to the vessel, which was ap- proached with considerable difficulty, and rescued the crew consisting of seven men.