CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The Coastguard watchman haying reported a steamer on the North Rock on the 7th April, 1897, the Life-boat Faith was launched at 5.30 A.M., and prooeeding to the vessel fonnd her to be the s.s. Rannoch, of and from Glasgow, in ballast, for Cardiff, where she was to load for the West Coast of Africa. The coxswain agreed to remain by the ship until high water, the master hoping she would float then. In this, however, he was disappointed, and he requested the Life-boat men to stay until low water, fearing that when the tide went down the vessel would capsize.

When the water left her she heeled over a little, and her crew got into the Lifeboat ; but as she showed no signs of going over altogether, the captain decided to stay by her. He persuaded the mates, engineers, and some of the crew, eight in all, to go back; but the other fifteen men were landed in the Life-boat. Before leaving, the Life-boat men made arrangements with the captain as to the nature of the signals he should show if he needed assistance during the night. Fortunately, however, he had no occasion to make use of them..