The Covent Garden Life-boat was also launched at 2.15 A.M. on the 17th December, in reply to signals of distress, during a strong N.N.E. wind and a very heavy sea. She found the brig Clara, of Dublin, bound from Liverpool to the Tyne with a cargo of salt, had lost her main topmast and was waterlogged with 7 feet of water in her hold. Some of the Life-boat men boarded her, and, with the assistance of a steam-tug, took her into Lowestoft harbour.

She carried a crew of seven men..