The schooner Maria, of Fowey, whilst bound from Charlestown to Ghent, with a cargo of china clay, attempted to put into New- haven Harbour on the 12th February.

A strong southerly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and the vessel stranded on the bar at the entrance to the harbour. Information of the casualty was received at 6.10 A.M. by the Honorary Secretary of the Branch, who ordered out the Motor Life-boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton. Shortly after the Life- ! boat reached the vessel she floated on the rising tide, and the Life-boat assisted her safely into Newhaven Harbour.