In response to three guns fired from the Gorton lightship the Lowestoft Life-boat was also launched at about 9 A.M. on the 17th December and was towed out by the tug Rainbow. The wind was blowing half a gale from the N.E. accompanied by a heavy sea. Owing to the mist at sea no vessel could be seen until the lightship was approached, when the trawler Magic, of Hull, was found disabled having all her sails split; she had lost her mizen-mast, her anchor was gone, the sea was making a clean sweep of her deck and she was fast driving on to the sands, where she would undoubtedly have been wrecked. At the request of the master some of the Lifeboat crew got on board, and the tug took both the vessel and the Life-boat in tow and brought them into Lowestoft harbour, arriving there at about 11.30 A.M. The trawler had a crew of five men..