At 8.30 P.M., on the 22nd January, the Coastguard at Rye Harbour reported that a vessel in the bay was making distress signals.

Without delay the Life-boat John William Dudley was launched and proceeded to the craft, which proved to be the ketch Lord Tennyson, of London. It was found that in the prevailing E. by S.

gale her sails had blown away, that the steering gear had broken and that the sea was breaking over her. With great difficulty the three men on board were rescued, together with their dog, the crew being in a very exhausted state from the severe cold. The sea being too heavy for the Life-boat to attempt to return to Winchelsea, the Coxswain made for Hastings, where the rescued men were handed over to the Shipwrecked Mari- ners Society. It was then past 11 P.M., the Life-boat was therefore made secure for the night and her crew provided with food and lodging. The next morning the weather was too severe to admit of the Life-boat being taken back to her station, the crew therefore went home and returned for the boat when the weather moderated. The cold was so great at the time of this service that the wet clothes of the men who launched the Life-boat were frozen upon them when returning home..