At about noon on the 23rd November, during a moderate southerly gale, the Coxswain of the Life-boat Thomas McCunn received a telegram from the Light-keeper at Mull of Galloway, stating that a Russian barquentine was driving across Luce Bay flying a signal of distress. The crew of the Life-boat were at once summoned, and horses procured, the boat was then transported to Tirally Bay, where she was launched in a heavy surf. On reaching the vessel, which proved to be the Lenu, of Riga, bound from Liverpool to Ayr, in ballast, the captain informed the Coxswain that his vessel had been in tow, and the tug had left him; further, that he required the assistance of another tug. He therefore asked the Life-boat to return ashore and despatch a message for one. The Life-boat stood by the vessel until she brought up to her anchors, and, no further help being required, she returned ashore and sent a message for a tug to assist the barquen- tine. The boat was then taken back to her station, where she arrived at 7.30 P.M..