During the morn- ing of the 13th June, the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched in answer to guns from the East Goodwin Light-vessel, and on reaching her found the crew of the schooner Cicerone, five in number, taking refuge there. The men were transferred to the Life-boat, which re- turned to Ramsgate and landed them.

It appeared that the schooner in ques- tion, whilst bound from Fowey to Bo'ness with a cargo of china clay, collided in a dense fog during the early morning with a Russian steamer.

Within a few minutes the schooner foundered, but her captain and crew, five in number all told, took to the vessel's boat and succeeded in reaching the Light-vessel in safety..