At about 7 o'clock on the following morning flares were shown by a vessel in distress in Corton Eoads. The wind was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was rough at the time. The Lowestoft Lifeboat proceeded to her assistance, and found she was the ketch Evening Star, of Hull,bound from Kirby to London with coal.

With the aid of a tug, the vessel, which had been partly dismasted, was brought into Lowestoffc Harbour. She had a crew of three men..