On the 26th November a ship's boat crowded with people was descried from this station scudding before a westerly gale. The Manchester Branch Life-boat William Woodcock was promptly launched, and managed to intercept the boat as she was on the point of rushing among dangerous breakers, which would inevitably have overwhelmed her. The men thus saved by the Life-boat were the master and crew of the Cassibelaunus, of North Shields, which vessel had foundered off the Start that morning..