The Winterton No. 2 Life-boat Margaret was launched at 1 A.M. on the 13th April to the assistance of a vessel stranded on Hammond's Knoll. When about three miles out the boat was picked up by a steam-tug, and arrived about 7 A.M. at the ship, which proved to be the s.s.

Golden Horn, of South Shields, derelict and laden with coal. The Life-boat men boarded her and, finding she had some •water in her, commenced pumping and heaving the cargo overboard, 'the steamtag being despatched to bring more tugs and more men. With this additional help the vessel was got afloat at 11 P.M.

and was taken into Yarmouth Eoads at 7.30 on the following morning. A strong wind blowing from the E. and S.E., she remained in the Eoads until the 16th, her pumps being kept at work all the time and the coal still being taken out in order to lighten her. The weather having then moderated her anchor was slipped, and she proceeded for Harwich in tow of three tugs, the Life-boat accompanying her. That night she anchored eight miles E. of the Cork Light-vessel, the next morning getting under way again, but a thick fog set in, and she was compelled to anchor again, having arrived about a mile and a half from the lightship.

On the 18th a strong wind rose from the E.N.E., and as the seas were breaking over the ship a quantity of oil was poured overboard so as to still the waves as much as possible. On the 19th, after driving for three hours on the Cork Sand, all the men being in the Life-boat, •with the exception of three who were on the veesel, she was, with the assistance of another tug, taken into Harwich Harboar at 12 o'clock noon..