morning of the 30th October information was re- ceived from the coastguard, that a barge was driving off St. Margaret's Bay in a dismasted condition, and making signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 were summoned, and the boat launched. She proceeded to the barge, which proved to be the Birthday, of London, bound from Ports- mouth to Dunkirk. Three Life-boatmen were put on board the barge and, with the assistance of a tug, both she and her crew of three men were saved..