— The schooner Harmony, of Preston, while bound from Garston to Wexford with a cargo of coal, ran ashore on the Black- water Bank, on the 24th April, and became a total wreck. Her signals of distress were observed by the Coast- guard, who reported them to Edward Wickham, the Coxswain of the Wexford Life-boat James Stevens No. 15. Within a quarter of an hour of receiving information of the wreck the Life-boat was launched and on her way to the vessel. The south end of the bank was reached about midnight, and flares were seen in the direction of the north end of the bank, evidently from a vessel in distress. These were answered by the Life-boat, and she proceeded as quickly as possible to the wreck. When she arrived it was found that the after part of the schooner was submerged, and that the sea was making a clean breach over the remainder of the vessel. Also that, owing to the sails being loose and the booms and gaffs swinging free, it was not possible to get under the ship's lee. The Life-boat anchored on the weather side and veered down until communication could be effected; she then got under the port bow, the only place from which the men could be rescued, and there the greatest care had to be exercised as the vessel's anchor and head gear made it impossible for the boat to get close up to the vessel. The three men on board were given directions ! to await an opportunity to jump into the Life-boat as she rose and fell.

Eventually all three were rescued, but they were in an exhausted condition, having been continually washed by the seas for two hours before the Life-boat reached them. Brandy was administered to the men, and as soon as the Life-boat had recovered her anchor, sail was set, and she made for Wexford, where the shipwrecked men were landed at 7.15 next morning. The rescue was a most timely one, as it would not have been possible for the men to have held out on the vessel much longer, as the sea was quickly becoming worse..