the south-west. The vessel was discovered to be on shore, in
a peculiar position, on a rocky reef, so that she could only be
approached from windward. The lifeboat's anchor was accordingly let go,
with the intention of being veered down to the wreck, but a heavy roller
striking the boat, carried away the cable and broke three of her oars.

Finding it then impossible to close with the vessel, in consequence of
her peculiar position and the heavy sea breaking over her, the lifeboat
returned to Tenby, and Lieutenant Boyle and his crew proceeded to the
spot with all haste by land with the rocket apparatus. Several efforts
were made before the party succeeded in sending a line over the wreck.
At length perseverance crowned their efforts, a line was thrown, and
caught by the crew on the wreck; a stouter rope was next hauled on
board, and by its means, in the course of three hours, the whole of the
crew, who would otherwise have met with a watery grave, were safely
landed. The silver medal of the Lifeboat Institution was awarded to
Lieutenant Boyle, and the second-service clasp was added to the medal
received on a former occasion by Robert Parrott.

LOWESTOFT LIFEBOAT.

Few boats have been the means of saving more lives from destruction than
that of the lifeboat belonging to Lowestoft, on the Suffolk coast. We
will mention a few instances to show the way in which the seamen and
boatmen of that place have risked their lives for the sake of those of
their fellow-creatures. On the 26th of October 1859, the schooner _Lord
Douglas_ parted from her anchors in a heavy gale from the south, and
foundered off the village of Carton, on the Suffolk coast; the crew, as
she went down, climbing into the rigging, where they lashed themselves.

The Lowestoft lifeboat proceeded under sail to the spot, and, having
anchored to windward of the wrecked vessel, succeeded in getting lines
down to the crew, who were then drawn from the masts safely on board,
and were landed at Carton. So heavy was the gale, that she split her
foresail in the service. Scarcely had the lifeboat returned from saving
the crew of the _Lord Douglas_, than another schooner, though lying with
three anchors ahead, drove ashore at Carton. A foresail was borrowed,
and the lifeboat again started on her mission of mercy. She reached the
vessel under sail, and happily succeeded in rescuing all the crew; but
having split her borrowed sail, she was compelled to run in fo