On November 14, at about 2.30 A.M., two flares were seen on the Scroby Sand, and rockets were fired from the St.

Nicholas Light. The Leicester Life-boat immediately put off, and on reaching the sand a vessel was discovered sunk, with the crew on the mast and in the rigging.

The Life-boat anchored and veered down until under the mast of the wreck, from which the crew, consisting of 5 men, lowered themselves into the boat. They had been three hours and a half in the rigging, and were much exhausted; in fact, it was feared that one of them would have died, but he happily recovered after reaching the land. On hauling the Lifeboat off, after the last man was saved, thecable parted, the boat having been struck by a heavy sea. Fortunately she -was then clear of the wreck; had this happened a few minutes sooner the consequences would probably have been very serious to the Life-boat, and no doubt fatal to any of the men left in the rigging of the wreck. The water was very shallow on the sand, and the sea very heavy, the Life-boat being many times filled with water. The wrecked vessel was the Ann Wilmot, trawling smack, belonging to Lowestoft..