The Life-boat Barbara Fleming was launched at 10 A.M. on the 18th March during a whole northerly gale and very rough sea, in answer to distress signals in Porthdinllaen Bay. The vessel was the ketch James, of Carnarvon, bound from Abersoch to Porthdinorwic with a cargo of sand. The Life-boat saved the crew of three hands, and the ketch afterwards drove ashore on a sandy beach, where the heavy sea made a clean breach over her..