On the 31st January, two rockets, indicating that the services of the Life-boat were required, were fired from Scurdyness.

The No. 1 Life-boat Robert Henderson was launched at 2.45 P.M., and rendered assistance to the fishing-boats Red Jacket and Ebenezer, and the steam-trawlers Southesk and Mare, which had been overtaken by a very heavy sea, and would probably have been unable to cross the bar in the absence of the Life-boat..