On receipt of a message on the morning of the 1st July, stating that a yacht was aground on the West Hoyle Bank, the Life-boat Admiral Briggs was launched at 11.45, and on reaching the vessel found she was the Speedwell, cutter-rigged, of Liverpool. At the master's request the Life-boat stood by her until she got off the bank on which she had been driven by a heavy squall. A W.N.W. breeze was blowing, the sea was choppy, the weather was thick, and rain was falling during the time this service was rendered..