Another service was also performed by this life-boat on the 12th September, in going off to the assistance of a sloop which was observed with a signal of distress flying a short distance below the jetty, while a heavy gale from W.N.W. was blowing.

Before she could reach her, however, the sloop took the ground, and her crew were taken off by a coastguard boat. The life-boat then proceeded to the help of other vessels seen with signals of distress flying, and succeeded, with the assistance of a steam-tug, in saving the schooner Lady Anne, of West Hartlepool, and her crew of 5 men from destruction. She had lost both anchors, and had most of her sails blown away.