The first Life- boat service in the year 1872 was, that on the 1st January, by the boat on this station, it happening to be the only service performed by a Life-boat of the Institution on New Year's Day, 1872.

The schooner Sybil, of Yarmouth, bound to that port from the North, with coals, was entering the river Yare in tow of a steamer, when the tow rope parted, and she drove on the North Sand. The wind was blowing fresh from the S.S.W., and a high sea was running at the time. Signals of distress having been hoisted by those on board the vessel, the Life-boat Leicester put off and saved them, 5 in number.

The schooner afterwards became a total wreck.