The N.N.E. gale of the 12th January blew with unusual violence at Fishguard, and at 6.30 A.M. signals of distress were made by the s.s. Dynamo, of Hull, in the bay. The Life-boat Charterhouse was launched, but she was delayed for some little time in proceeding to the steamer, owing to the motor, with which she is fitted, failing to start.

Finding that the motor would not work, a tug belonging to the Great Western Railway Company took the boat in tow.

They found that the vessel had lost both her anchors, and they brought the vessel and her crew of fourteen hands into safety. The Coxswain of the Life- boat was then, informed that a schooner, which subsequently turned out to be the Lizzie Edith, of Truro, bound from Runcorn to Truro with coal, was making signals. He at once went to her as- sistance, and rescued the crew of four men and landed them at the quay at 10.40 A.M. The schooner was dragging her anchors, and, very shortly after the crew were taken off she was swamped and sank, becoming a total wreck. The gale and very heavy sea continued throughout the day, and at 3 P.M.

further distress signals were observed from the schooner Agnes Craig, of Chester, at anchor in the bay. The Life-boat, which was still afloat, was at once manned, and proceeded under motor power—the motor now working splendidly—to the schooner. The crew wished to be landed before darkness set in, and they were taken into the boat. When leaving the schooner, the Life-boat was hailed by the crew of the ketch Democrat, of Barnstaple, which was also at anchor in the bay, and her crew, of three hands, were also taken into the boat. She then returned to land, taking off two men from the hopper barge Fishgnard on the way.

The three crews, ten men all toW, were landed at 4 P.M. By a strange coin- cidence, the Democrat was the vessel to whose assistance the St. David's Life- boat had put off, when she met with so sad and disastrous an accident on the 13th October, 1910..