During very severe weather on the llth February the Life-boat Huddersfield went off, in reply to signals from the Hasborough light- ship, and brought ashore 15 men who had formed part of the crews of the barques Launceston, of Shields, and Arctic Hero, of Goole, both of which vessels had sunk, after being in collision with each other on the south end of the Hasborough Sands. Unfortunately 11 others on board the vessels lost their lives in the collision.

The severity of the weather was such that everything in the Life-boat was frozen, and the crew suffered much in their arduous and trying expedition..