CLOGHER HEAD, Co. LOUTH.—While about sixteen open yawls were fishing off Clogher Head on the morning of the 24th January, a gale sprung up very suddenly from W.N.W., and the coxswain of the Life-boat, who was watching the fleet, saw that several of the boats were in danger through the loss of their sails.

He at once summoned the crew, and at 11.40 the Life-boat Charles Whitton put off, taking two extra men to go on board any boat which might be short-handed.

Several of the boats had very narrow escapes, but all succeeded in getting into safety. One of them, the lugger Irish Girl of Dundalk, would probably have foundered with all on board in the absence of help from the Life-boat men.

Her sail was split, the boat was half full of water, drifting ont to sea, and her crew of six men were completely exhausted.

They were taken into the Lifeboat, two of the Life-boat men boarded the lugger and baled out the water from her, and the boat was towed safely ashore.

This was the first service rendered by the Life-boat here, the station having only been formed in July last year; it reflectedgreat credit on the Life-boat crew, who reported most favourably on the behaviour of the boat..