On the 23rd February, the ship Omega, of Newcastle, was stranded on the Cockle Sand, on the Norfolk coast, during a gale of wind. She afterwards drifted, and sankabout fourteen miles S.E. of Lowestoft.

The Yarmouth and Caister life-boats—Mark Lane and Birmingham No. 2—put off in reply to the signals of distress, followed the vessel up, and succeeded in saving her crew of 7 men..