On the 16th September the Dutch motor vessel Ransel, of Delfzyl, bound, laden, from Ayr to Teignmouth, came to anchor in Courtown Bay, and five of the crew, with the master's wife and her sister, went ashore for provisions. The master, one seaman, and two small children were left on board. The weather grew bad, and by the evening a whole south gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. The crew tried to get back to the ship, but their boat cap- sized, and they swam ashore. Three of them then went to the life-boat station at Arklow and, as the Ransel was in danger of going ashore in her shorthanded condition, the motoir,life- boat John Taylor Card-well was launched at 8 P.M. to put them on board. Mean- while the master had weighed anchor and taken his ship farther out to sea, and the life-boat did not find her until 3 A.M. The men were transferred to her and then, at the master's request, the life-boat went ashore and brought out the remaining members of the crew.

She returned to her station at about 10 A.M.—Rewards, £12 2s. 6d..