On the 5th May, in a moderate breeze and smooth sea, the barque Queen Margaret, of Glasgow, stranded on a submerged reef of rocks to the south of the Lizard.

The vessel was a large four-masted barque of nearly 2,000 tons, and was bound from Sidney to Limerick with a cargo of wheat. Signals of distress from Lloyd's Signal Station were the first intimation to the Life-boat authori- ties that a casualty had occurred, and the Life-boat Admiral Sir George Sack promptly responded. On reaching the vessel the captain's wife and child were placed in the Life-boat and conveyed ashore. The boat then returned to the barque, and, as she had taken a list to port and the hull was gradually becom- ing submerged, the captain and four sailors were taken into the boat. Life- boatmen were then put in charge of the ship's boat containing the remainder of the crew, twenty in number, and the whole of the men were conveyed ashore in safety..