On the 15th February at about 5 P.M., while a whole gale was blowing from W.8.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather with rain, the ketch R. T. B., of Bridgwater, laden with flour from Plymouth for Cardiff, was seen about two miles from the harbour with a signal of distress flying. In about ten minutes the Life-boat Boy's Own No. 1 was launched and proceeded under sail to the vessel, which had lost her head sails and stays and was fast drifting towards a lee shore. Her crew of four men were taken into the Life-boat and safely landed at Looe..