Whilst the schooner Waterlily, of Barnstaple, was riding at anchor in St. Tudwall's Roads on the 4th December she parted her starboard chain during a S.S.W. gale which sprung up, and made signals of distress. The Life-boat Old'kam was promptly launched and took off the three men on board the vessel. Later the weather moderated and the crew returned to their vessel, but on the 6th December a whole S.S.E. gale sprang up with a heavy sea, and signals of distress were again made by the Water- lily and by another schooner named the Sarah Anne Widdup. The Life-boat was again launched, and rescued the men on the Waterlily, three in number, and the one man on board the other schooner..