On the 30th December, at 6.30 P.M., signals of distress having been observed, the No. 1 Life-boat went to the Cross Sand, and found the barque. Palmyra, of South Shields, ashore there. Part of her crew had abandoned her in two boats, and the others were preparing to leave her.

The Life-boat men boarded the vessel, and, finding only 18 inches of water in her, they decided to attempt to save her; and, with the aid of steam-tugs, she was eventually got off and taken iuto Yarmouth Eoads..