APRIL 2ND. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.

At five o’clock in the morning the naval base telephoned the life-boat station that a small vessel was ashore. A strong southsouth- east wind was blowing, with a nasty swell and heavy rain. The motor life-boat N.T. was launched at 5.45, and three-quarters of a mile south of Seascale found the auxiliary schooner Happy Harry, of Arklow.

She had a crew of five aboard and was bound, with a cargo of burnt ore, for Silloth. As she was not only aground but leaking the master asked the life-boat to take off the crew, which she did, landing them at Barrow at 1.15 that afternoon. Three days later the schooner was refloated and, with her crew on board again, was towed to Silloth. - Rewards, £7 1s..