On the 8th January at 7.15 A.M., the Harbour-master at Ramsgate received a telegram from the coastguard officer at Harwich thus worded: "Large ship ashore on Shipwash: Liverpool tug going out, but got no Life-boat." The Ramsgate steam-tug Aid was then alongside the wharf coaling, but with as little delay as possible she was got ready for service, and at 8.30 put to sea with the Lifeboat Bradford in tow. 'The position of the wreck, as indicated by telegram, was about 40 miles dead to windward of Ramsgate; it was blowing a hard gale at E.N.E., while the weather was so cold that the salt water froze as it fell in showers over the bows of the steamer and Lifeboat, and on the exposed crew of the latter. The " Shipwash " was reached at 3 P.M. This lightship is a little over 4 miles from the lighthouse on the mainland about Orfordness. From the crew of the Shipwash Lightship it was ascertained that the Norwegian barque Hunter had been wrecked on the bank during the night of the 6th, and on the morning of the 7th she was observed from the adjacent land and by various fishing smacks. During the night of the 7th the steam-tug Liverpool put out from Harwich, and soon after daybreak on the 8th succeeded in removing all on board, consisting of 9 persons, who had undergone great sufferings during their long exposure.

The Ramsgate tug and Life-boat, thus forestalled on their errand of mercy, made their way back to Ramsgate, where they arrived at 10.30 P.M.—all bauds, especially in the Life-boat, terribly prostrated, having suffered much from the severity of the cold and the storm. They had passed over 90 miles of ground, and had been fourteen hours at sea.