A telephone message was received from Bacton reporting a barque -with signals of distress flying, on the 27th March. A whole gale was blowing from N.E. by E., the sea was very heavy and the •weather very cold, with squalls of hail. The crew of the Life-boat Good Hope were summoned, the Life-boat was launched at 11.50 P.M. at Waxham, whither she bad been taken by road on her transporting carriage. Several of the helpers were swept away from the boat and carriage by the heavy seas, and the launch altogether was a very difficult one. The Chief Officer of Coastguard passed two rocket lines which were fast to the vessel to the Lifeboat men, and by means ef these the Boat was got within a length and a half of the wreck, but a high bank lying between the ship and the boat prevented the latterfrom getting alongside. Some of the crew got out of the boat and succeeded in throwing the heaving cane and line on board the ship, with a veering line attached, and the bowman of the Life-boat boarded the vessel. With the help of those on shoie four men were landed but four others were helpless from long exposure.

The coxswain of the Life-boat, with assistance, then got on board, hauled in the whip of the rocket apparatus and by means of this the men were safely landed, the last man reaching the shore at 2 A.M..