On the night of the 20th December, the Life-boat George Hounsfield, stationed at this place, put off, during a gale from the S.W., in reply to signals of distress, in the shape of burning tar-barrels, from a vessel which proved to be the schooner Hose, of Ipswich, and which had gone on the Whiting Sand.

On arriving alongside, the crew of the Life-boat found that the men on board were about to leave in their own boat, but, with the assistance of the Life-boat, the vessel and crew of 4 men were sub- sequently taken safely to Harwich, and then on to the port to which they belonged..