In response to signals of distress at 8.30 P.M. on the 18th January, the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched. There was a whole W.N.W. gale at the time, and the sea was very heavy. Having proceeded in the direction of the signals, they found the schooner Amy, of Ply- mouth with five men on board bound from London to Plymouth, in a perilous state; her sails had blown away in the gale, and her anchors had parted. Six Life-boatmen were put on board, and the boat stood by them. When the tide turned they succeeded in working the vessel to Ramsgate Harbour..