At 7.30 P.M.

on the 5th November signals of distress were observed from a vessel on Salter's Bank. The wind was blowing with the force of a whole gale from the south- west, and there was a very heavy sea.

The Life-boat James Scarlet was promptly launched, but until the tide turned at about 11 o'clock all efforts to reach the vessel proved unavailing. At that time a further effort was made which proved successful. The vessel was found to be the steamer Bosaleen, of Cardiff, bound from Dublin to Gaston in ballast. The master of the vessel stated that they had left Dublin the previous afternoon in a moderate gale, which quickly increased to a hurricane.

The engines broke down, the stokehole became flooded, and" the vessel became quite unmanageable. She drifted the whole of the following day, which was Sunday, and finally grounded on Salter's Bank. The crew of eleven hands were taken into the Life-boat, which arrived back at St. Anne's at midnight. The master of the vessel was loud in his praises of the St. Anne's Life-boatmen, and expressed his gratitude for the timely rescue. The shipwrecked men, who were quite destitute, were, on being landed, at once provided with food and shelter..