BARMOUTH.—A large vessel was seen stranded on St. Patrick's Causeway on the morning of the 24th March, 1895. A heavy gale was blowing from S.W., the weather was thick and the sea rough. The Life- boat Jones Gibb put off at 8.15, and on reaching the vessel found she was the four-masted barque Andrada, of and for Liverpool, from Tacoma, with a cargo of wheat. The boat anchored and laid close to the ship until 1.30 P.M., being several times filled by the heavy seas which broke over her, the wind having changed to N.W. at noon, and blowing a terrific gale for about an hour, after which it moder- ated. The master of the vessel stated j that he did not require any help from the ! Life-boat men, and ultimately the coxswain gave orders to weigh the anchor and set sail. Nineteen of the barque's crew there- upon got into the boat, requested to be taken ashore, and were landed at Bar- mouth, the others remaining on board the vessel, which eventually floated and was towed to her destination by steam- tugs.

LITTLEHAVEN.—The smack Sarah, of Milford, bound from Solva to Pembroke Dock, laden with grain, showed a signal of distress, as she was dragging her anchor, while a strong gale was blowing from N.W., with a heavy sea at 11.30A.M. on the 24th March. The Life-boat David Pickard promptly went to her assistance and returned ashore at 1 P.M. with the crew of two men. The wind fortunately moderated and changed to a W. direction, and the vessel, which ultimately brought up in a dangerous position, held to her anchors; had the squall continued half- an-bour longer she would in all proba- bility have been completely wrecked.

BROADSTAIRS.—A signal of distress was shown by the ketch Martin Luther, of Cowes, bound from Poole to London, with a cargo of pipeclay, in a gale from W.S.W., and a very heavy sea, on the 2ith March.

She had anchored off the North Foreland, but had been compelled to slip her anchors in order to avoid collision with another vessel. "With the assistance of a steam-tug she was taken into Ramsgate Harbour and safely berthed there.

ST. DAVID'S. —While a gale from W.S.W. was blowing and a very high sea was running, on the 24th March, signals were fired by the South Bishop Lighthouse. At 5 P.M. the Life-boat Gem was launched, made for St. David's Head, and found the brigantine Lily Dale, of Cork, coal laden from Newport, Mon., for Cork, just off Abereiddy or the Sledges.

She was disabled, her masts having been carried away by a squall when about ten miles N.W. of the Smalls Lighthouse, and she was drifting helplessly. On arriving within hailing distance the cox- swain of the Life-boat requested the master to let go his anchors, and this having been done, the vessel's head was brought to the wind. Considerable risk, owing to the state of the wind and sea, was incurred in taking the vessel's crew into the Life-boat, but this was skilfully accomplished, and the seven men were landed at Porthgarn, where the boat remained during the night. The Life- boat again went out on the following day and assisted in an attempt to save the vessel, which was ultimately towed into Fishguard by a steamer. Invaluable help was rendered by the chief boatman in charge of H.M. Coastguard at St. David's and by the men under his com- mand in connection with, the services rendered by the Life-boat.

YOUGHAL.—The Chief Officer of Coast- guard having reported that a steamer, bearing about fourteen miles E. of Youghal, appeared to be in distress, on the 28th March, the Life-boat Mary Luckombe was launched at noon and pro- ceeded under sail to the vessel. A gale from the W.S.W. was blowing and there was a heavy sea. The steamer proved to be the Sapphire of Dundee. She had left Queenstown in the morning, bound for Manchester, and having lost her pro- peller when off Youghal, hoisted signals of distress. At the master's request the Life-boat remained by her until the arrival of two steam-tugs which came from Queenstown about an hour after the Life- boat reached her, intelligence of the casualty having been conveyed by an American liner which had passed. The tugs took the vessel in tow and the Life- boat set sail for home, but the wind changed to the W. blowing a whole gale, and as the heavy seas broke into the boat she was unable, there being a strong current against her, to return to Youghal, and therefore made for Ardmore, about four miles E., where she was beached for the night. On the following day she was taken back to her station.

NEW BRIGHTON.—A telephone message having been received on the night of the 28th March reporting a vessel stranded on Crosby Beach, the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland left her moorings at 11.20 and proceeded through a heavy sea, the wind blowing a moderate gale from W.S.W. to N.W. with heavy squalls, to the stranded vessel which was the schooner Holly How, of Barrow, bound from Londonderry for Garston. Her crew of five men were rescued by the Life-boat and landed at New Brighton.

PADSTOW.—On the morning of the 29th March the schooner Lizzie Treriberth, of Fowey, was seen about three miles N.W. of Trevose Head. She was under close reefed sails, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.W. and the sea being heavy.

At 9 A.M. the Life-boat Arab was launched and proceeded to Stepper Point, so as to be at hand should her service be required.

The vessel got safely inside the Point and anchored, the Life-boat remaining by her until a steam-tug arrived and towed her to Hawker's Cove.

PETERHEAD.—On the 28th March con- siderable anxiety was felt as to the safety of several fishing boats which had not returned, a whole gale having sprung up from E.N.E. accompanied by a tremendous sea. At 11 A.M. the Life-boat George Pickard was launched and laid at the mouth of the harbour ready to render any help that might be required. At about 1 o'clock one boat arrived and got safely in. About an hour afterwards another boat was sighted in the offing and her progress was watched by a crowd of anxious spectators. She rounded the south head with the barest stretch of canvas, bat on entering the bay set a close- reefed sail, and her decks were repeatedly washed by the cross seas. The Life-boat pulled out to her assistance and got from her a tow line which was taken to the south quay, the fishing boat all the while drifting, apparently helpless, towards the rocks. At one time it was thought that all hope of saving the vessel must b9 abandoned and that the efforts must be confined to saving her crew by means of the rocket apparatus which was ready for any emergency; but about a couple of hundred of the fishermen took hold of the line and, watching their opportunity, made a rush up the quay and brought the boat safely into the harbour. She was the Eclipse, a boat of twenty tons burden, and carrying a crew of seven men. The Life-boat men were kept on duty until 10 P.M., the coxswain remaining in attend- ance until 4 o'clock on the following morning, in case further help might be required.

SKEGNESS.—The brigantine Camilla, of Laurvig, being seen to take the ground on the Boghead Sands on the evening of the 2ud April, and a few minutes after- wards burn flare-up lights, the Life-boat Ann, John and Mary was launched and proceeded to her assistance. A strong E.N.E. wind was blowing at the time and the sea was rough. On reaching the vessel it was found that she was leaking badly, and that her crew of six men were preparing to leave her. Some of the Life-boat men, however, boarded the ship, and with their assistance she was ulti- mately taken to Boston, for which port she was bound with a cargo of ice from Brevig.

CLACTON.—A vessel having been seen apparently stranded on the Barrow Sand, and showing a signal of distress, on the 7th April, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 2.23 P.M. in a moderate sea, a strong breeze blowing from E.S.E., proceeded under sail and oars to the vessel, and found she was the three- masted schooner Betty Russell, of Lan- caster, coal laden from Newcastle for Youghal, Ireland. At the master's re- quest the Life-boat remained by the vessel until high water, but she did not float. The help of the Life-boat men was then accepted to jettison the cargo, and after sixty hours' work the ship was got afloat, cleared the sands, and was taken to Brightlingsea.

RUNSWICK.—At about 4 P.M. on the 7th April a pilot boat was seen making for the shore. A heavy sea was then breaking on the bar, and the boat would evidently run considerable danger in attempting to cross it. It was therefore decided to take oat the Life-boat Cape of Good Hope and inform the pilots of the risk attending an attempt to land. They thereupon put to sea again, and the Life- boat returned to the shore.

FORMBY AND NEW BRIGHTON. The barque South African, of Belfast, bound from Rio Grande for the Mersey with a cargo of bone ash, stranded on Taylor's Bank in a strong W. wind with a heavy sea on the 11th April. On the vessel being observed from Formby it was decided to take out the Life-boat to her assistance, as in the probable event of the sea becoming worse she would be in a dangerous position. At 6.40 A.M. the Life-boat was on her way. A message by telephone was received at New Brighton reporting the casualty, and at 6.45 the Steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland left her moorings and also proceeded to the rescue. The Life-boats remained by the ship until she floated and was taken in tow by a steam-tug from Liverpool.

RAMSGATE,NORTH DEAL AND WALMER.—In response to signals fired by the North Sand Head and Gull Light-vessels, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, Mary Sommerville, stationed at North Deal, and Civil Service No. 4, of Walmer, were launched on the night of the 21st April.

A moderate wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. On reaching the Good- win Sands, search was made, and at about 1 o'clock in the morning the barque Madeline Rickmers of Bremerhaven, was discovered stranded on the inner part of the North Sand. The Life-boat men lent a hand at throwing overboard about a hundred and fifty tons of her cargo of rice, a kedge anchor and warp was laid out, and at 10.15 tow-ropes were taken to the steam-tug Bradford of Ramsgate harbour, which had, as usual, towed out the Rams- gate Life-boat, and the steam-tug Trafalgar.

After towing about a couple of hours the vessel came off the sands and was taken to a safe anchorage in the Downs.

HARTLEPOOL.—While a gale of wind was blowing from the N. with a high sea on the 16th May, the brig Rudolf, of Trelleborg, laden, with mining timber, for Hartlepool, was seen driving ashore towards Seaton beach. The No. 2 Life- boat, Charles Ingleby, was launched at 3.30 A.M., and was towed across the bay by the North Eastern Railway Company's steam-tug Iron. When within three- quarters of a mile of the wreck the boat was cast adrift so as to run before the sea into shallow water, row along the beach and then out under the lee of the vessel.

On reaching her, the crew were seen on the deck eagerly awaiting the arrival of the boat, which experienced consider- able difficulty in getting alongside owing to the floating spars, the main mast having been cut away. At length a hold was obtained with the grapnels fore and aft, and when the Life-boat touched the ship's side two children were handed over. The boat then sheered off a little, and on again, getting alongside the master's wife was taken on board, and afterwards the master and crew jumped into the boat as opportunities offered. It was impossible to get the grapnels clear and they were therefore cut away, and the boat with eleven rescued persons left the vessel. With the help of the saved crew the oars were double banked, with much difficulty the boat steered clear of the Longscarr rocks which were close under her lee, pulled to the steam-tug and was towed safely into Hartlepool at 4.45 A.M. Just as the boat left her, the vessel's foremast fell over and she began to break up, so that in the absence of the Life-boat those on board would probably have met with a watery grave, as several rockets which had been fired failed to reach the ship.

NORTH DEAL.—While a moderate gale from N.N.W. was blowing, with a very heavy sea, on the morning of the 16th May, a boat, containing a lieutenant, five blue jackets and a marine, belonging to H.M.S. Research lying at anchor in the Downs, was seen apparently making for the shore. It was impossible for her to reach it, and as she was in a dangerous situation the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at 11.10 and went to her assistance. Having lost ground in row- ing she had anchored when the Life-boat reached her, but her occupants declined assistance, bravely renewing again and again their exertions at their oars but losing ground and again anchoring. The Life-boat remained out, and when the tide slacked the wind and sea increased, and she once more spoke the boat. The officer being desirous of obtaining a tow back to the vessel, the Life-boat tried to tow the boat back, but as the operation was attended with much : danger to the small boat, which was broadside to the sea, the attempt was abandoned; the Life- boat got alongside and told the officer and his men that their only chance for safety was to abandon the boat or be towed by the Life-boat to Dover. They then got into the Life-boat, being in a more or less exhausted condition, two of the Life-boat men took their places in the boat, and a start was made for Dover; on arriving off the South Foreland the painter broke, but eventually Dover was safely reached and the night was spent there. In the morning the Dover steam- tug took both the boats in tow, the small boat being taken back to the Research and the Life-boat returning to her station.

On the 2nd October signal guns were fired by the Gull light-vessel, while a moderate gale was blowing from W.S.W. with a very heavy sea. The Life-boat was launched at about 5.40 A.M. and found the s.s. Fal, of Falmouth, ashore on the North Sand Head, Goodwin Sands.

The services of the Life-boat men being engaged to assist in getting the vessel out of her dangerous position, they laid out an anchor and chain and on the flood tide succeeded in getting her afloat. She had a crew of ten men on board.

HUNSTANTON.—The Life-boat Licensed Victualler put off at noon on the 17th May in a rough sea and a strong N.N.W. breeze, a vessel having been reported in distress. The vessel proved to be the brig Amelie, of Frederickstadt, laden with pit props, water-logged, dismasted, and a total wreck on Heacham beach. Her crew of nine men, who were in their boat alongside the ship, were taken into the Life-boat and landed safely at Hunstanton at 2 o'clock.

BROADSTAIRS. — Signals having been fired by the East Goodwin and North Sand Head light-vessels, the Life-boat Christopher Waud, Bradford, was launched at 4 A.M. on the 24th May, and found the schooner Buenos Aires, of Hamburg, stranded on the Goodwin Sands. The Life-boat remained by the vessel until the tide made, when she, floated, apparently uninjured, and proceeded in a westerly direction.

HARWICH. — The Cork light - vessel having signalled on the 6th June, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow left her moorings at 9.15 P.M., and on reaching the lightship ascertained that a vessel was on the West Bocks. A moderate breeze was blowing from the N.E., the sea was rough, and the weather clear and fine. The Life- boat made for the vessel, and found that she had lost her steering gear and was leaking badly. Some of the Life-boat men boarded her, she was taken, in tow and was brought into Harwich at 5.35 on the following morning. She was the schooner Hans, of Kendsburg, bound for Colchester, laden with oil cake and manned by a crew of four men.

PENMON.—On the 3rd July the schooner Brought Castle, of Ramsey, laden with salt, stranded on the Causeway Bock in a strong N.W. breeze. The Life-boat Christopher Brown went to her assistance and attempted to heave her off, but the hawser parted, and the Life-boat returned ashore with the vessel's crew of three men. At the next tide the boat again went off, laid out an anchor, and by means of the boat's ropes succeeded in getting the vessel off the rock and took her to Beaumaris.

NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The Fame light- houses having signalled a ship in distress on the Knavestone Bock, the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched at 2.45 A.M. on the 12th July, in a moderate W.N.W. gale and a rough sea, and on reaching the vessel found she was the schooner Para-gon, of Inverness, timber laden from Inver-gordon for Sunderland. She had struck on ! the rock, but when the Life-boat arrived j she had floated off. Her crew consisted of four men. Four of the Life-boat's I crew went on board and made sail, with ' the view of bringing the vessel into harbour, but she capsized, turning keel upwards, and all the men on board her were thrown into the water. The Life- boat men had their life-belts on and the schooner's crew were good swimmers, and so all the men were picked up by the Life-boat, which then returned to her station, arriving at 5.30 A.M.

HOYLAKE. — The Life - boat Coard William Squarey was launched at 11.28 A.M. on the 14th July in a strong gale from N.W. by W. and a very heavy sea, and proceeded to the yawl Sally, of Liver- pool, reaching her at 12 o'clock. She was at anchor on Spencer's Spit, and had three gentlemen on board. With very great difficulty, the seas then running mountains high, the yacht was taken in tow, and after a very rough passage Hoy- lake was reached at 2.30 P.M.

On the 2nd October the Life-boat was again called out for service, a vessel being reported in distress near the Crosby light-vessel. The boat proceeded through a very heavy sea, the wind blowing a strong gale from W.N.W., and on her way found the schooner The Cousins, of Beaumaris. She had been run aground about three-quarters of a mile from the shore, as she was sinking. Her crew of two men were taken into the Life-boat, and immediately afterwards the vessel's masts fell. The Life-boat then went to the other vessel, which had lost her sails.

She did not, however, require the help of the Life-boat, but was towed to Liverpool by a steam-tug.

WORTHING.—The brigantine Halcyon, of St. Nazaire, laden with slates for London, being observed to be rapidly driving ashore in a whole gale from S.S.W. and a heavy sea on the 20th July, the Life-boat Henry Harris put off at 2.45 P.M., and on teaching her found that there was only the master on board, the crew of five men having been taken off by a pilot-cutter at 10 o'clock in the morning, as the vessel was in a sinking condition.

The master, however, remained on board, hoping to be able to steer his vessel into Shoreham harbour. He was in such an exhausted condition that he could not take the Life-boat's line, but had to be lifted out of his vessel by the Life-boat men. In the evening the vessel sank and became a total wreck.

SHOREHAM.— On the 20th July the barquentine Atlantic, of Areudal, which was riding at anchor off the harbour, was observed to be dragging towards the shore. The wind was blowing a moderate gale from the S. and there was a rough sea. At 2 P.M. the Life-boat William Rtstett was launched. The tide was then ebbing, there being only just sufficient water to float the boat, and it was known that the vessel was drawing sixteen feet of water and was perilously near the ground—in fact she struck while the Life-boat was alongside her. Her crew of nine men desired to leave the vessel, and were therefore taken into the Life- boat, which then made for Brighton, as the wind having changed rendered it impracticable to return, to her station.

PALLING.—A vessel having been dis- cerned ashore on the Hasborough Sand with a signal of distress flying during squally weather and a heavy sea on the 28th July, the No. 2 Life-boat Hearts of Oak was launched at 2 P.M., and found the stranded vessel was the s.s. Ida, of and from Dantzic, with a crew of sixteen hands and two passengers, bound for London with a general cargo. 0 wing to the shallowness of the water, the Life-boat men could not board her until 9 P.M. At the request of the captain the Life-boat remained by until 1 A.M., when the weather became very threatening, and as the ship was fast filling it became neces- sary to abandon her. With great difficulty the eighteen persons on board were taken into the boat, and were safely landed at 6 A.M. The steamer became a total wreck.

DUNGENESS.—The ketch Appledram, of Foole, sprung a leak and foundered on the sand off No. 2 Battery on the 2 ad August, while a moderate gale of wind was blowing. The No. 1 Life-boat, E.A.O.B., was launched at 9.30 A.M., and the Life-boat men were requested to take the vessel to Folkestone harbour.

The pumps were kept going, but she was leaking so badly that it was im- possible to save her, and the crew of two men were therefore taken into the Life-boat and landed at 9 P.M.

BARMOUTH and PWLLHELI.—On the 2nd August the Life-boats Jones Gibb, stationed at Barmouth, and Margaret Plait stationed at Pwllheli, proceeded to the assistance of the barque Kragero, of Krageio, bound from Wilmington, South Carolina, for Manchester, with turpentine and resin, which had stranded on St. Patrick's Causeway in a strong wind from W. by S. and a rough sea.

By means of anchors, which they laid out, and setting all possible sail, the Life-boat men succeeded in getting the vessel off the sand, and took her to a safe anchorage in St. TudwalPs Roads. The barque had a crew of twelve men on board.

RAMSGATE, NORTH DEAL AND BROAD- STAIRS.—In response to a telephone mes- sage and signals fired by light-vessels, the Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steam- tug Aid, left Ramsgate harbour, and the Life-boats Mary Somerville and Chris- topher Waud, Bradford, were launched from their respective stations at North Deal and Broadstairs shortly after two o'clock on the morning of the 11th Sep- tember, and proceeded to the Goodwin Sands. On reaching the sands, on which a rough sea was breaking, the s.s. Lady Wolseley, of Dublin, was found ashore on the North West Spit, burning flares and firing rockets. She was bound from Dublin for London with a general cargo, and had seventy-three passengers on board. Efforts were made by the Aid and two other steam-tugs to tow the vessel off, but they were unable to move her. The tide having then fallen, the endeavours of the tugs were suspended for awhile, and it was decided to place the passengers on board the Aid and take them ashore. This was accomplished by the Life-boats, and the tug proceeded to Ramsgate, having in tow the Bradford Life-boat, which was filled with the passengers' luggage. The services of the Broadstairs Life-boat not being further needed she returned to her station.

Having landed the passengers and luggage the Aid and Bradford returned to the stranded steamer. Meanwhile the North Deal Life-boat and a steam-tug laid out an anchor and steel hawser. Shortly before high water the three tugs made fast to the steamer, and succeeded in turning her round, bringing her head to N.N.W. Her engines were then set full speed ahead to assist the tugs; and not- withstanding that the hawser attached to the kedge broke, owing to the strain put upon it, the vessel was hauled clear of the sand and was enabled to resume her voyage to London. The Aid then took the two Life-boats in tow and made for Ramsgate, the Deal boat being dropped when in a position to reach her station.

BURNHAM.—The ketch Eliza, of Ljd- ney, was sailing up the river on the 2nd October, when owing to the state of the weather—a moderate gale blowing from the W.N.W. with strong gusts of wind and a heavy sea—her master considered it safer to anchor. Close behind her was another vessel, and before the anchored vessel could alter her lights she was run into, and both vessels sank, only their masts being visible. From the pier it seemed as if some men were in the rigging, and the Life-boat John Godfrey Morris therefore put off, but in passing another vessel anchored near the spot, found that the crews had landed in one of their own boats. The Life-boat then proceeded to another vessel in the bay, and after a hard pull reached her, and found she was the smack Tom, of Watchet, laden with stone. There was no one on board her, and the boat therefore pro- ceeded to the ketch Hereford, of Gloucester, coal laden. She also had been abandoned, and had lost all her sails. The Life-boat then returned to the Tom, put three men on board the vessel, and brought her up to the pier.