Early on the morning of the 23rd March three boys put out from the harbour in a small boat and headed up the Bristol Channel.

When about half a mile out they tried to put about and return but were unable to do so, as a fresh W.S.W.

breeze was blowing and a strong tide running, which tended to carry the boat offshore. The boat was seen from shore and the pulling and sailing life-boat Sarah Pilkingto-n was launched at 6.50 A.M. The boys did not want to leave their boat and the life-boat took her in tow. The wind lulled for a time, but before the boats reached harbour it blew strongly, bringing a very nasty sea. But for the life-boat's help the small boat would have been capsized or swamped. The life-boat returned to her station at about 9.50 A.M.—Rewards, £24 18s. 9d..