At 6.45 P.M.

on the 18th August information was received by telegram from the Light- keeper at Point of Ayr Light-house to the effect that a small yacht was in difficulties close by, flying signals of distress. The Life-boat Mary Isabella was at once ordered out, and in a south- westerly gale and heavy sea proceeded to Point of Ayr. She reached the yacht a few minutes after 8 P.M. and found that she was the Sea Bird, of Carnarvon, with three persons on board, bound from Lamlash to Pwllheli. The three men were quickly transferred to the Life-boat, and she at once started on her return journey, arriving at Ramsey at 4 A.M..