At about 6 A.M.

on the 19th March, during a moderate N.E. gale, a telephone message was received reporting that a dismasted schooner was in distress off Trevose Head. The No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey, in tow of the tug Helen Peele, proceeded to the scene of the disaster without loss of time. They reached the vessel at about 8.30 A.M. She proved to be the schooner Frances, of Lancaster, bound from Plymouth to Swansea with a cargo of pitch, and she was then in a waterlogged condition. The crew of five hands were taken off by the Life- boat and conveyed ashore. During the day the wind and sea died down and the derelict was picked up by a steam trawler and towed into harbour in the evening..