Dur- ing a moderate to strong gale on the 14th March a three-masted schooner was observed at anchor on the south side of the Greengrounds, dragging her anchors. As she was in a position of danger, and had hoisted a two flag signal, the Life-boat Charlie Medland was launched and proceeded to her.

She proved to be the schooner Isolda, of Gothenburg, bound for Swansea.

Communication was effected and the master of the vessel requested that his wife and two children should be taken ashore. With some difficulty they were transferred to the boat, which then proceeded to Swansea and landed them.

The crew of the vessel declined to leave her, and fortunately the anchors held and she did not drag to any serious extent, otherwise she would in all prob- ability have been lost, and at low water the sea would probably have been too heavy and broken for the Life-boat to have rescued the persons on board..