On. Sunday, the 5th December, at 7.10 A.M. the Life-boat Civil Service No. 3 was launched, a mounted messenger having arrived with intelligence that a vessel was showing signals of distress in Larbrax Bay, six miles N. of Port Patrick.

On reaching the Bay a large Austrian steamer, the Bathori, of Fiume, with a general cargo from Fiume for Glasgow, was found stranded, having run ashorein the night during foggy weather. The Life-boat remained by the vessel, and on the following morning tugs, which had been summoned from Glasgow by telegraph, arrived. The wind, however, which had been a moderate breeze, had by that time increased to a strong gale from W., with squalls, the sea had increased, and it became imperative that the men should leave the vessel. Nineteen of them therefore got into the Life-boat, which put them on board a steam-tug, and the captain and five other officers were taken in the Life-boat to Port Patrick. The boat was engaged from 7.10 A.M. on the Sunday morning until 1 o'clock on the afternoon of the following day in rendering this service, her crew being exposed to wet and stormy weather during part of the time..