Signals haviog been fired by the Nore Light-vessel on the morning of the 12th February, the crew of the same Lifeboat were summoned and proceeded to the head of the pier, a distance of about a mile and a half, where the boat is kept moored. Patting off at about 4.15, they proceeded to the Mouse Sand and searched it for some distance, but seeing no vesselin distress they made for the Mouse Light-vessel and found she had on board the master and crew of three men of the schooner Billow, of Inverness, bound from Dover for London, in ballast. The four men were taken into the Life-boat and safely landed at noon. A moderate gale was blowing at the time from W.S.W.

with heavy squalls and a rough sea.' The master of the schooner informed the coxswain that the vessel stranded on the Black Tail spit and floated off, but as she was on her beam ends and half full of water, he and the crew were compelled to abandon her and pull, in their boat, to the Light-vessel, which was not far distant from them. He believed that the schooner afterwards sank in deep water..