Early on the morning of the 7th February a large vessel was seen on the Salthouse Bank with flag of distress flying, and in a very perilous position. The wind was very strong from S.W., and the weather thick. The Black- pool life-boat was soon launched and taken alongside the vessel, which proved to be the barque Lexington, of Nassau, bound from that port to Liverpool with a cargo of cotton valued at 80.000Z. The captain of the vessel gave his crew leave to abandon the ship, but said that he himself would stick to her while a plank remained, if the life-boat would stay by her. The crew of the boat therefore undertook to remain by the barque, whose crew, thereupon, also kept by their vessel, and ultimately, on the weather moderating, by using very great exertions, the ship was got off the bank, and finally taken into Liverpool in tow of a steam-tug. The captain of the Lexington heartily thanked the life-boatmen for their services, and his crew cheered them when their vessel was got off the sandbank. The life-boat was away 28 hours, and the crew looked much worn when they came ashore.

For these important services the life-boat's crew received from the owners of the barque the large sum of SQL The Southport and Lytham life-boats also went off to the stranded vessel, but finding the Blackpool life-boat already there, they returned to the shore..