On the 22nd March, at 9.15 P.M., flares were seen from a vessel on the Barber Sand, by the beach- men. They launched the surf-boat Boys, and went to the Sand, but could not get within a warp's length of the vessel, as there was no water on the spot where she lay sufBcient to float the boat. Fail- ing to reach her from any quarter they anchored till the tide flowed, when, after various trials, they got along-side her-, and took out the crew of 6 men, with their clothes, &c., after about six hours' exposure to snow, squalls, and wea- ther. The beachmen, being thoroughly wet and cold, and not expecting that the vessel could get off the Sand, returned home directly with the crew; but the next morning, being light, she came off, and the Scratby beachmen boarded her.

The Caister men then took the captain back to the brig in the Life-boat, and the vessel was taken into Yarmouth Harbour by the Scratby men. She was the brig Ark, of West Hartlepool, bound thence from London in ballast.