CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coastguardman arrived and informed the coxswain that a barque was on the S.E. part of Hasborongh Sand. The boat was afloat at 4.15 and sailed to the sand, shipping some heavy seas on her way, but found no vessel there. She then sailed down the sand and eventually came upon a barque, the Glenbervie, of Glasgow, bound from Hamburg for Adelaide with a general cargo and a craw of eighteen men. She was riding on the N.W. edge of the sand. The Life-boat went alongside and, finding the master was anxious to have his vessel taken to a place of safety, the Lifeboatmen agreed to do so, and, with the assistance of two steam-tugs which subsequently arrived, she was taken to Harwich. A strong gale was blowing from E.S.E. and a very heavy sea was encountered all the way. The Life-boat arrived back at Yarmouth harbour at 8 o'clock on the following evening..