MAEGATE, KENT, and HARWICH, ESSEX. — At 11.30 A.M. on the 19th August information was received at Margate that a large vessel was ashore on the Longsand. The crew of the No. '2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were assembled, the Life-boat launched, and proceeded to the sands. On arrival the Coxswain found the barque Fox, of Arendal, aground. He asked the captain if he required any assistance, and in reply he stated he wished the Life-boat to stand by until high water, also to inform him as to his position, as he had been unable to take his bearing, and was in ignorance as to where he was. In the meanwhile a message reached Harwich reporting the casualty, and the steam Life-boat City of Glasgow put to sea. She made straight for the Longsand, and both. Life-boats stood by the barque until high water at 11 P.M.

When she succeeded in the strong N.W.

wind in getting clear of sands she was put upon her course for America, and the Life-boats returned to their re- spective stations..