JANUARY 11TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning the police telephoned that a vessel was in distress off the Cable Hut, Ballyvester, Donaghadee.

The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched at 1.15. A whole gale was blowingwith a very heavy sea. The life-boat found the four-masted motor auxiliary schooner Ruth II, of London, on the rocks, close in shore. She made several attempts to get to her, but it was impossible among the rocks.

Nor was she able to fire a line across her.

Meanwhile, as soon as the life-boat was launched, the honorary secretary of the station, Mr. D. McKibbin, had gone by car to the scene of the wreck, where the coastguard and the police were preparing to carry out a rescue from the shore. The crew of the schooner fired a line to the shore from their line-throwing gun and then launched a raft. By means of the line the people on the shore were able to haul in the raft, and it passed backwards and forwards between the ship and the shore until eight of the crew of nine had been rescued. One of the men unfortunately was washed off the raft and drowned. While the rescue was going on the life-boat stood by until a signal was flashed to her that all the crew had been taken off. She then returned to her station, arriving at four in the morning. - Rewards, £13 19s. 6d..