HILBRE ISLAND, CHESHIRE.—At about 5 P.M. on the 7th April, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and cold and squally weather, the Coxswain of the Life-boat who was working on the island, saw a flat driven on to the West Hoyle Bank and as she was very low in the water and the weather very bad, he decided to take out the Life-boat Admiral Briggs to her assistance. He at once summoned the crew and on reaching the vessel found she was the William, of Liverpool, ladenwith, limestone, and was leaking badly.

Some of the Life-boat men boarded her, pumped the water out of her, set her Fails and as the tide was making managed to get her off; she then proceeded up the Dee to Mostyn. The master of the yesse! was very grateful for the help rendered by the Life-boat men; without their assistance it is unlikely that he would have weathered the gale..