While a strong wind was blowing from the S.S.W., with a rough sea, on the morning of the 28th June, two trawlers grounded on the Scroby Sand. The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched to their assistance at about 8.20, but before they were reached one of them got off the sand, having first collided with the other boat and carried away her topmast. The boat which remained grounded was the cutter Naar Myn Genoegen, of Ostend.

She had four men on board, the master having got into the other boat when the collision occurred. The four men refused to leave the vessel and, as there was not sufficient depth of water to allow the Life-boat to lay closer, she was anchored about forty yards to the eastward. Soon afterwards two of the men left in their own boat, were picked up by the Lifeboat and taken to Yarmouth. Shortly after these men had been landed the other two men placed a flag in the rigging of the vessel, whereupon the Life-boat again went out. The water being still too shallow to allow the Life-boat to get closer to the vessel, she took another boat in tow, veered this alongside the trawler and by this means took the men off, safely landing them at 3.45..