In smooth but very foggy weather on the 27th July, information reached St.

| Peter's Po:t during the afternoon that a vessel had stranded off Perrelle Bay, and within half an hour the Life-boat Vincent Wilkinson, KrTt Ella had pro- ceeded in tow of the s.s. Vixen. On arrival in the vicinity they found the s.s. Trignac was on a rock known as the Soufleuresse. The Captain asked the Life-boat to stand by him, and also that the crew would assist to jettison part of the cargo. The Life-boatmen were there- fore placed on board and worked all night to lighten the ship; they then stood by her, in case their services should be required, throughout the night and the following day. At 3 A.M. on the 29th the steamer floated oft'. Both she and the Life-boat then made for St.

[ Peter's Port, which was reached at 7.30 that morning. The vessel, which was a large one of nearly 1,500 tons, had twenty-six hands on board, and at the time of the accident was bound from Buenos Ayres to Rouen with a cargo of maize..