On the 7th May a strong gale was blowing from E.S.E., and several vessels sheltering in the Bay were seen to be riding heavily to their anchors. Shortly before 2 P.M.

one of the schooners began to drag her anchors, and her crew hoisted a signal of distress. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 10 were promptly summoned and the boat beat out of the harbour and made for the schooner.

Before the Life-boat reached the vessel the crew slipped the anchors, and the vessel quickly drove ashore. One of the crew promptly got in the ship's boat, and fortunately reached the shore in safety, but the other three men remained on board and were soon afterwards saved by the Life-boat and taken ashore in safety. The vessel was the schooner Loango, of Sligo, bound from Southamp- ton to Newport with a cargo of scrap iron..