At 9.5 P.M. on the 2nd March the life-boat watchman reported that a steamer had drifted ashore on the Inner Binks. She was in a dangerous position, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched. A light, but freshening S.W.

breeze was blowing, and the weather was misty. The life-boat found that the vessel was the s.s. The Monarch, of Glasgow, bound from London to the Huniber for orders. Her captain said that he would signal at flood tide if he wanted any help, so the life-boat stood by. The steamer refloated, unaided, on the flood tide, and the life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 4.30 A.M.-—Permanent crew ; Rewards, 18s..