ON October 27th last the Life-boat at Fenit, Tralee Bay, on the west coast of Ireland, was called out to the help of three men who had put off in a tender to a fishing-smack, anchored a mile off shore. A strong gale was blow- ing, and though the men reached the smack in safety, the tender sank shortly afterwards, and the smack was shipping so much water that she too was in danger of sinking. The Life-boat suc- ceeded, with some difficulty, in taking off the three men and brought them safely ashore. Among those who went out in the Life-boat was a volunteer from the crew of the schooner Mary Ann Mandril, of Barrow, which was lying in the port of Fenit. Last year the Mary Ann Mandal herself was in difficulties at Holyhead, being carried on to the breakwater while trying to make the harbour. The four members of her crew were rescued by the Holy- head Steam Life-boat, and the schooner herself was saved and safely anchored by the Life-boatmen..