Three cobles put to sea in the early morning of the 22nd April, and at 8 A.M. one of them returned, as the sea was rapidly grow- ing. The other two—the Robert and Mary and the Brotherly Love—reached the roads about 10 o'clock, and lay waiting to get in. About 10.30 the No. 2 Life-boat, John Fielden, was sent to their assistance, and brought up in the roads near them. At 1 o'clock it was seen that it was not possible for the cobles to enter, neither was it safe for the men to remain in them. All the men—seven in number—were there- fore taken into the Life-boat, and the cobles cast adrift to wash up on the beach..