On the 12th December, the Godsend Life-boat went to the assistance of the fishing-smack Martin Bailly, of Yarmouth, which had stranded on the Barber Sand.

On arriving at the Sands, the vessel was found to be in the midst of the breakers, with her boat alongside full of water.

The Life-boatmen immediately boarded the smack, and used every effort to save her; they eventually succeeded in doing so, and in about eight hours' time she was afloat, and was taken into Yarmouth harbour, having sustained very little damage, although the sea had been breaking over her nearly all the time. She carried a crew of 6 men..