During a strong gale from the S.S.E., and in a very heavy sea, on the morning of the 16th March, the George Houn&field Life-boat put off and succeeded in taking into Harwich harbour the distressed brigantine Isabella Heron, of Blyth, and her crew of 6 men.

The vessel, which was in a leaky state, was bound to Boulogne with a cargo of coals.

The Life-boat men were much pleased with ' their boat, and with the way in which she ! took them off the land under canvas, the wind being dead on shore at the time..