The Cox- swain of the No. 1 Life-boat was rung up on the telephone by the Coastguard at 8.55 P.M. on the 13th February and informed that the St. Nicholas Light- vessel was firing signals for a vessel in distress to the north-westward. He launched the Life-boat Mark Lane and a tug took her in tow. The vessel was easily seen by her flares, and the Life- boat was enabled to follow her in a stern chase as the wind and tide were rapidly driving her towards the Corton Sands. Fortunately the Life - boat reached her in time to put eight men on board, who succeeded in getting the tug's wire hawser fixed as the breakers were just astern of the vessel and from this perilous position at the neck of the sands she was saved. Subsequently she was taken into harbour by the tug and safely berthed. The vessel proved | to be the ketch Swin, of Blythe, and it was entirely due to the work of the Life-boatmen that she was saved, as her crew of four men were completely exhausted when the boat reached the ketch..