At 1 P.M. on the 21st December, during a gale from the N.E. with a tremendous sea, a vessel was observed on shore at Waxham. The No. 1 Life-boaf Good Hope was promptly manned and launched, but the water was too low to float her over the bank. Communication with the vessel was effected by the rocket apparatus, but the "whip" broke; the Life-boatmen, however, fortunately secured the broken ends of the line, and brought them ashore.

The shipwrecked crew of eight men were by this means safely landed. The vessel was the barque Town, of Liverpool, of Whitby, bound from Stockholm to Hartle- pool, with a cargo of pit-props..