RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—Flares having been shown by a vessel at anchor in the bay while a moderate gale was blowing from S.E., accompanied by a heavy sea and thick weather, on the 4th October, the Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched at 5.50 A.M., and found the barque Topdal, of Mandal, bound from Apalachicola for Whitehaven with a cargo of pitchpine, dragging her anchors and in danger of being driven ashore. Her crew of eight men were rescued by the Life-boat and safely landed at 8.30.

They stated that the vessel had driven mile shoreward during the night..