May Meeting.

Eastbourne, Sussex.—On the morning of the 27th February a man reported that he had seen a vessel showing flares. She was the barge Davenport, of Ipswich, bound with a crew of three, and cargo of firebricks, from Plymouth for Sheerness. She had gone aground about three-quarters of amile south of the Redoubt. A S.S.W.

wind was blowing, the sea was rough, and the weather was cold, with rain.

The motor life-boat Jane Holland was taken from the house at 7.30 A.M., but the tide then was at almost the lowest ebb, and, in spite of all the efforts of the crew and launchers, she did not get away until 9 A.M. She rescued the three men, and two dogs, and returned to her station at 10.30 A.M.—Rewards, £31 7*. 6d..