On the 13th April a barque, which proved to be the Lucy, of Antwerp, was seen to be in distress on the Burnham Flats, five miles and a half from the shore. The Braacaster Lifeboat, the •Joseph and Mary, was launched as soon as horses could be procured, and on reaching the vessel it was found that she had been abandoned, and had 2 men aboard from a neighbouring smack, who were in posses- sion of her. On the tide rising sufficiently to float her, with the joint aid of a steamer and the crews of the Lifeboat and lugger, she was taken across the sands, and ulti- mately conveyed in safety to Lynn..