On the 28th December this life-boat again went off, in reply to signals of distress from a vessel which was observed to stop in her course near the shoal of the Barber Sand.

On the -life-boat arriving alongside, the vessel proved to be the brig Kelpie, of London, laden with coals, from Shields. She was aground on the sand, and very leaky. The life-boat remained by her all night, and ulti- mately succeeded in getting her off, and, with the assistance of a steam-tug, the vessel and her crew of 8 men were safely brought into Yarmouth.