GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN.—On the 16th June, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea, a message. by telephone was received from Bangor stating that assistance was needed by distressed vessels. The Lifeboat George Pooley was taken on hertransporting carriage by road to Bangor and found two vessels were in need of assistance. One of them, the schooner Hollyhow, of and for Galway, bound for Barrow, timber laden, was lying about hundred yards from the Clifton rocket, her two anchors having dragged, and the other, the smack Harp, of Arklow, laden with coal, had also dragged her anchors, and was about half a mile from the shore, in Bangor Bay. The Life-boat was, by means of skids, launched off the pier into the harbour. She proceeded first to the Harp, polling to windward through heavy sea. Having anchored, she veered down on the vessel, passed a line on board, and rescued the crew of four men. She then again pulled to windward, again anchored, and veered down to the Rollyhoia, from which eight persons were saved; they were the master, his wife and three young children, and the crew of three men. Having taken them on board, the Life-boat once more got up her anchor and made for Ballyholm Bay, where the twelve rescued people were landed safely in a creek. The boat was moored while her crew rested, and afterwards sailed back to her station. The launch and the rescues were well and skilfully managed, and in recognition of their good services an additional reward was granted to the crew of the Life-boat.