Signals of distress were exhibited by a large full-rigged ship about two miles and a half to the north- ward of this place, on the 22nd of Octo- ber, whereupon the Benjamin Bond Gabbell life-boat was launched, and proceeded to the vessel, which was found to be the ship William Frofhingham, of New York, bound from the Baltic to Shields, and thence to New York; she had been aground during the gale, had 5 ft. of water in her hold, and her rudder being unshipped, she was quite unmanageable.

The vessel and those on board, with the aid of the Cromer life-boat and the Sher- ingham beachmen's life-boat, were safely taken to Yarmouth harbour..