At midnight on the 13th, in reply to signals from the Gull Lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, in a strong breeze at W.S.W., and proceeded under sail to the assistance of the barque Fleetwing, of Newcastle, bound from Shields to Lisbon, which vessel had received considerable damage while in collision with the Gull Lightship, and was drifting to the east- ward, having lost both her anchors. The Life-boat having boarded the Fleetwing, she ultimately secured the services of a steam-tug, by whose assistance she was carried, with 9 of her crew, into port.

Whilst the Broad'stairs Life-boat was thus engaged, the Ramsgate Life-boat and steam-tug also arrived, but their services were not needed.