On the 14th November both the Life- boats on the Caister station, as well as the Yarmouth No. 1 Life-boat, the Mark Lane, went off to the assistance of the screw-steamer Benjamin Whitworth, of Middlesborough, which had grounded on the Cross Sand, near Great Yarmouth.

The Caister No. 2 Life-boat, the • Boys, first proceeded to the stranded vessel, to be in readiness in case during the night the weather should get worse, when the position of those on board, including 38 men from the shore who had gone to render assistance, would be very perilous.

By 10 o'clock at night the wind had increased to a heavy gale from the south, and the Life-boat was driven from the ship, and being unable to regain her, the crew made for the shore, and took out their larger No. 1 Life-boat, which came to the steamer, and lay by her until she came off the Sand. The Yarmouth No. 1 Life-boat had also gone out to the steamer, but her 'services were not called into requisition..