PORT LOGAN, WIGTOWNSHIRE.—Information was received at 5.15 P.M. on the 10th April that a vessel was showing distress signals in Luce Bay. The Life-boat Frederick Allen was as quickly as possible transported on her carriage to the most convenient launching place at Tirally Bay, upwards of two miles distant, and launched without delay.

On reaching the vessel she was found to be in a dangerous position on a lee shore, she was also leaking and had lost one anchor. The master refused to leave his vessel, but asked the Life-boat to stand by him, which did so for about two hours ; he then requested the crew to return ashore and telegraph for a tug and return with an answer. As no tug arrived an agreement was made for the Life-boat to take the vessel to a more windward anchorage. This operation occupied several hours, and it was 11 A.M. on the 12th April before the Life-boat arrived at her house again.

The vessel was the barquentine Jessy, of Drogheda, bound from Drogheda to Ayr with a cargo of limestone..