Rockets were fired from the Wold Lightship, and the Cockle Light afterwards fired guns and rockets, during a light N.N.W. breeze on the night of the 16th December. At 10 o'clock the Caister No. 1 Life-boat, Covent Garden, was launched and towed by a steam-tug to the Wold Lightship. The Life-boat men were then informed that a steamer had been seen to drift past in a southerly direction burning flares; on proceeding to the Newarp Lightship they were told that the vessel was probably near the Cross Sand Lightship. The Life-boat thereupon went in that direction and found the steamer about half-way between the two lights having just let go her anchor. The Life-boat men boarded her, and the master stated that she had been on the Leman Sands, had lost her rudder, and had been taken in tow by a large steamer, but that the hawsers had parted. The vessel was leaking badly and the master wishing to have her taken into port she was taken to Lowestoft. She was the Ben Macdui, of Aberdeen, bound from Blyth for Plymouth with coal, and had a crew of twelve men all told..