BLACKPOOL.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 13th April, while the wind was blowing strongly from the N.N.W. and a heavy sea was running, the fishing-smack Harriet, of Marshside, was observed in difficulties off Blackpool.

After watching her course for a while, it was evident that she had become unmanageable, and therefore the Life-boat Samuel Fletcher was launched and went to her assistance. Proceeding in a southerly direction, the fishing - boat struck the Crusader Bank, two miles south of Blackpool, before the Life-boat could bear down on her, and rolled over on her starboard side. Her crew of four men, who were in a very exhausted condition, were taken into the Life-boat, and the vessel, which was not damaged, was afterwards taken to Lytham in charge of three of the Life-boat men..