The ship Thomlie- banlc, of Glasgow—a large vessel of nearly 2,000 tons register—whilst bound from Pisagua to Palmouth with a cargo of nitrate, ran on to the Grim Rocks during foggy weather on the 28th November, The vessel commenced to settle down, and shortly afterwards she foundered, but the crew of twenty-five men escaped in their own boat. The sea at the time was fairly smooth, and fortunately the fog lifted sufficiently to enable the Light-keepers at the Bishop Rock Lighthouse to see the casualty, otherwise the men would have run a considerable risk of drifting out to sea unseen. Signals of distress.were made from the Lighthouse, and the Life-boat Charles Deere James was launched.

She reached the boat when off Mellidgen and brought the ship's boat and the twenty-five men ashore in safety..