During a heavy snow squall on the evening of the 7th December the fishing-luggers Alexander, of Yarmouth, and Musselburgh, of Lowestoft, came ashore on the beach south of the harbour of Lowestoft. The crew of the^ first-named vessel were rescued by the rocket appa- ratus, and the 11 men belonging to the Musselburgh were saved by the Pakefield No. 2 Life-boat, the Henry Burford, B.N.

Before the Life-boat could be launched she had to be drawn along the beach on her carriage, and there being several inches of snow on the ground at the time the horses could not have managed it, had they not been vigorously aided by a large number of the beachmen, by whose help the boat was quickly and successfully launched..