At 12.15 A.M.

on the 8th January information was received that the master of the barquen- tine Malpas Belle, of Truro, which had been beached during the previous day at Littlestone in a leaking condition, had remained on board and was then making signals of distress, as he was in danger. The Life-boat James Stevens No. 11 was launched and proceeded to the vessel; they found she was being swept fore and aft by green seas, and that the master had been obliged to take refuge on the end of the bowsprit as he was afraid of the mast going by the board. From this unpleasant posi- tion he was rescued and the Life-boat returned to her station. During this service a moderate northerly gale was blowing with a very heavy sea running..