About 1 A.M.

oil the 9th September, a telephone message was received from the Shipwash Light-vessel, stating that the brigantine Laura, of Whitstable, had been in collision with the Light-vessel, and was then drifting northwards. The Life- boat City of Winchester was launched, and proceeded to the Sauds, keeping a sharp lookout, in the meantime, for the brigantine, but without result. On arrival at the Light-vessel, the mate of the Laura was found there, he having been knocked overboard by the collision, and rescued by the Lightship men in a drowning condition. He was taken into the Life-boat, which then proceeded to make a further search for the missing vessel, hut no trace of her being found, the Life-boat returned ashore and landed the man they had brought from the Light-vessel..