DECEMBER 22ND. - DONAGHADEE, CO.

DOWN. At 4.45 in the morning the Bangor coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Luke’s Point, Ballyholme. A squally north-westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and rain. The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched at 5.15 and at 6.20 found the motor vessel Vrede ashore on rocks with her engine-room full of water. She had a crew of nine and was bound, laden with tea, from Glasgow to Exmouth. After some difficulty the coxswain took the life-boat alongside the vessel and three of the crew jumped into her. Five other members of the vessel’s crew reached land in their own boat, but the captain refused to leave. As the rescued were in a state of exhaustion the lifeboat took them to Donaghadee, where she arrived at 7.45. She then returned to the Vrede as there was a danger of her breaking up. After standing by until 9.30 the life-boat left. The weather was then improving and the danger lessening. She reached her station at 10.30. - Rewards, £10 12s. 6d..