BROADSTAIRS, KENT.—About 6.30A.M.

on the 4th March it was reported that the Lightships on the Goodwin Sands were firing signals. The Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched and proceeded to the sands, where they found the s.s. Margarethe, of Bergen, stranded.

The Life-boat went alongside, but found that the crew had left the vessel and were on board a Dover tug that was standing by her. There was six feet of water in the engine-room, but when the boat reached her she was beginning to swing to her anchor with the tide; the Life-boatmen therefore slipped the cable, took a hawser to the tug, which towed the vessel to Dover, accompanied by the Life-boat..