CARDIGAN.—While a strong N.W.

gale was blowing with heavy seas on the evening of the 24th March, the signalman fired the alarm signal indicating a vessel in distress in Cardigan Bay. The Lifeboat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare was launched shortly after 8 P.M., and pulled out to the vessel, which proved to be the schooner John Ewing, of Carnarvon, bound from London to Cardigan. She was then dragging her anchors and drifting towards the shore. As too much risk would have been incurred by the Lifeboat going alongside, the Coxswain anchored, and by means of a rope secured to the schooner and a Life-buoy succeeded in gallantly saving the crew of four hands in an exhausted condition.

Shortly after the rescue was effected the vessel beached on the Pembrokeshire sands, her hull by that time being completely under water, and became a total wreck..