On the 1st December, at about 7A.M., it was reported that a large ship was on shore on the Goodwin Sands. The crew of the Van Kook Life-boat immediately assembled, and the boat put off, and being taken in tow by the s.s. Royal Welsh, of Cardiff, she was enabled to reach the ship, which proved to be the Crusader, of Liverpool, 991 tons, bound from Quebec to the Tyne with timber. Some boatmen and some of the crew of a tu^ were on board her, in addition to her own crew. The vessel had 8 feet of water in her, and as the tide ebbed she settled down by the stern, her mainmast fell over the side, and it was soon observed that her back was broken.

Her crew, consisting of 18 men and the 4 others who had gone on board, were therefore taken into the Life-boat and safely landed at about 2.30 P.M..