On the 7th December, the tug and Lifeboat went out at about 6 A.M., in reply to signals of distress, and succeeded in saving the brig Eidswold, of Arendal, Norway,bound from Sundsvall, Sweden, to Poole.

She had gone ashore on the S.E. Goodwin Sands. She was laden with deals, and had become waterlogged. The vessel had crew of 8 men..