During a strong S.E. gale and heavy sea on the 15th January, several vessels ran for shelter toClovelly,and amongst them the ketches Jane Ann Elizabeth of Swansea, and Thomas Edwin of Plymouth, bound from Bideford with coal. At 8.10 P.M.

these ketches made signals of distress and the Life-boat Elinor Roget was promptly launched and rescued both crews consisting of six men, bringing them ashore shortly before 10 P.M..