On the 28th February the brig Zephyr parted her anchors and drove on the Scroby Sand. The larger Yarmouth life-boat pro- ceeded under sail to the assistance of her crew, whom she succeeded in taking off, and with one exception landed them in safety. Owing to the violence of the sea alongside the wrecked vessel, the life-boat could not go alongside, but anchoring and veering down to within a short distance of her, lines were thrown on board, and the wrecked men hauled into the boat through the sea. A poor boy had died from ex- haustion on board the vessel, and one of the crew also died on his passage ashore in the life-boat.