WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—On the morning of the 25th October, the coastguard watchman reported to the Coxswain that rockets were being sent up eastward of the Life-boat house, and as the Coxswain left his house he saw another rocket discharged. He at once summoned the crew, and at 4.30 the Lifeboat John William Dudley was launched, and proceeded to the vessel which had fired the signals, having stranded threequarters of a mile W. of Rye harbour.

She was the Helicon, of Hamburg, a large full-rigged ship, bound from Hamburg for Port Talbot in ballast. At the master's request the Life-boatmen laid out an anchor and cable, by means of which the vessel was got off when the tide flowed..